ALGIERS, Hamid Guemache - More than 8,000 artists and writers from all over Africa, as well as Brazil and the United States, are descending on Algeria for a huge cultural festival that kicks off this...

BERLIN, Aurelia End - Goodbye "fashionista" brands, where neither the price nor the planet counts. The recession has made recycled "recessionista chic" a hit at Berlin Fashion Week -- some of it even...

PARIS, Dominique Schroeder - The haute couture shows for next autumn-winter open next week in a sombre mood, with the fate of the house of Christian Lacroix hanging in the balance since it went into...

PARIS- French police on Tuesday detained Dutch supermodel Karen Mulder as they investigated a complaint she had harassed a cosmetic surgeon friend, police said. The model was being held in a...

PARIS, June 29, 2009 (AFP) - Rai star Cheb Mami was arrested at a Paris airport Monday after arriving from Algeria days before his trial on charges of forcing an ex-companion to attempt an abortion,...

PARIS, Dominique Schroeder - Days before turning 87, French fashion legend Pierre Cardin is stripping off a large part of his China empire and told AFP he was "going to sell everything I own."...

PARIS, Claire Rosemberg - Explorers in wide rumpled trousers hauling oversized bags sent the crowds of fashion buyers and critics at Paris Men's Fashion Week travelling from the banks of the Seine to...

NIJMEGEN, Mariette le Roux - A lighter, pen and cellphone that Dutch far right politician Pim Fortuyn had on him when gunned down in 2002 are popular targets for an auction on Saturday. "We have a...

LONDON- A man was cleared by a court Wednesday of attacking fashion designer Nicole Farhi during a robbery outside her London home -- but convicted of mugging seven other women. Farhi was attacked...