ASOS has made two key appointments, one much more high-profile than the other but both equally important. On the guaranteed-headline-grabber front, it has announced Rina Lipa as its ‘style dilemma director’. Read More
With the opening of its first store in Los Angeles, the British brand Toast is continuing its international expansion- one that is as discreet as it is well-thought-out. Read More
The former fashion magnate was once again found guilty of sexual assault by a Montreal court on Monday, while already serving an 11-year prison sentence in Toronto and also facing prosecution in the US. Read More
The ‘Fashion Cities Coalition,’ launched by Paris Good Fashion, brings together eight cities around the world and aims to pool solutions to make the fashion industry more sustainable. Read More
There may be no more durable experiment in Spanish-French teamwork than the existence of Andorra. Since the Middle Ages, the landlocked principality has two heads of state, one from each side of its border. But even though both of the larger countries that engulf it are founding members of the Eurozone — providing the currency…
The first debate on Thursday in Maine’s flash Democratic primary may feature a crowded stage. Eight candidates to replace Graham Platner on the ballot have been invited to the debate in Portland, the organizer said Tuesday. News Center Maine, which is sponsoring the event, had initially invited three people who ran for governor — Troy…
There’s been no shortage of top political figures attending World Cup matches to cheer on their home teams, but when Spain faces off against France in the tournament’s semifinals in Dallas today, neither the country’s head of state nor its head of government will be in the stands. Spanish King Felipe VI traveled to Guadalajara,…
DALLAS, Texas — The World Cup was supposed to be Dallas’s moment to shine. The city is famously image-conscious, and the powers-that-be trumpeted the fact that more Cup matches were scheduled here than any other host city. It seemed like a coup for a town whose football team (the other kind of football) bills itself…
LONDON — A police cover-up after a 1989 football stadium tragedy was seminal in shaping soon-to-be new British Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s political outlook. Burnham used his first speech upon returning to the House of Commons this evening as a member of parliament to hail a proposed new Hillsborough law — named after the Sheffield…
The great and good of the Brussels bubble has gathered tonight to watch the France-Spain match in a cavernous art gallery rented out by the French embassy. Ostensibly to mark the country’s Bastille Day, the reception quickly became a watch party for the semifinal, with peoples loading up plates of cheese, bread and canapés. Attendees…
