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• Alibaba shares soar after Jack Ma reported on European trip

  9 hours ago - Business

  Alibaba shares surged more than six percent on Wednesday after billionaire founder Jack Ma was reported to be in Europe, fuelling investor hopes that the worst of China's regulatory crackdown for the internet giant might be over.

• Gabriel Garcia Marquez' clothes to go on sale in Mexico

  Oct 18, 2021 - Fashion

  Mexico City - Lovers of literature and fashion, take note: 400 articles of clothing and accessories from Gabriel Garcia Marquez' wardrobe will go on sale in

• Uniqlo operator Fast Retailing posts record net profit

  Oct 14, 2021 - Business

  Tokyo - The operator of Japanese casualwear giant Uniqlo reported a record annual net profit on Thursday and predicted an even better performance this year as

• The Egyptian modelling agency 'decolonising beauty standards'

  Oct 14, 2021 - Fashion

  Cairo - Between the frenzied rush of wardrobe changes and photographers readying for shoots, Iman Eldeeb's agency is slowly breaking new ground for Egypt's

• Amy Winehouse belongings expected to reach 2 million dollars at auction

  Oct 12, 2021 - Fashion

  New York - Hundreds of items that belonged to late Grammy-winning artist Amy Winehouse, including the dress she wore during her final concert, are going up for

• French Vogue marks 100 years but is it still in fashion?

  Oct 7, 2021 - Culture

  Paris - French Vogue has been setting trends for a century, from the post-war 'New Look' of Christian Dior through the sexual liberation of the 1960s to the

• The future of fashion: How digital fashion has become a key trend

  Oct 6, 2021 - Fashion

  Digital fashion, This Outfit Does Not Exist

• Climate change activists invades Louis Vuitton runway show

  Oct 6, 2021 - Fashion

  Extinction Rebellion climate demonstrators burst onto

• Post-lockdown innovation dominates Paris fashion week SS22

  Oct 5, 2021 - Fashion

  Paris Fashion Week wraps up Tuesday after nine days of innovative experiments that showed how the industry is embracing technology and new approaches for a post-pandemic future.

• 'I've always been a feminist': Jean-Paul Gaultier becomes curator

  Oct 4, 2021 - Culture

  Paris - Having achieved pretty much everything there was to achieve in the fashion world, Jean Paul Gaultier is opening himself up to new horizons since