Fashion & Beauty

NEW YORK, N.Y. - There would be no "happily ever after" for Cinderella without her glitzy glass slippers, so careful attention was paid to the shoes for the princess-to-be's Broadway opening this weekend.

PARIS - Opposites and contradictions fuel contemporary fashion, as seen in the second day of Paris ready-to-wear shows.

PARIS - Dries Van Noten thinks fashion is far too serious.

PARIS - "It's the story of women, women who don't need men," says Guy Laroche's designer Marcel Marongiu of his revealing, even kinky, fall-winter 2013-14 offering.

NEW YORK, N.Y. - The party's over for Fashion's Night Out. The annual shopping event has been part of New York Fashion Week each September since 2009, when it was created in response to the recession.

PARIS - Croatian designer Damir Doma was back on top form for fall-winter 2013-14 in a show that saw his slouchy style get an unexpectedly elegant makeover. "Neo-corporate" was how the Raf Simons alumni described his smarter looks backstage.

PARIS - Bye, New York! Ciao, Milan! And bonjour, Paris.

PARIS - Architecture, the patterns of painting movement "art brut" and the surrealistic colours of Dutch Master Brueghel were all inspirations behind Cedric Charlier's diverse fall-winter 2013-14 show in Paris.

PARIS - It was the modern bohemian woman on parade in Belgian designer Veronique Branquinho's ready-to-wear.

PARIS - Fall-winter 2013-14 sees bright-eyed designer Alice Lemoine brimming with ideas.