Beginning his career in the late 1950s as the head fashion designer at the internationally renowned House of Dior in Paris, Yves St. Laurent (born 1936) quickly rose to become one of the most talented designers of haute couture of the twentieth...

Nan Kempner was a clotheshorse extraordinaire: closets and closets full of haute couture. During a three-day auction, many would-be fashionistas were able to snatch up some of the socialite's fineries, paying from $125 to upward of $11,000.The more than 60 pieces of wardrobe, featuring Kempner's...

Fashion designer Tom Ford has bought mineral rights beneath his Galisteo ranch southeast of Santa Fe in an attempt to protect his land from possible oil exploration in the region.Ford paid the state Land Office about $84,000 earlier this year to purchase the mineral rights...

French designer Hedi Slimane on Tuesday delivered the boldest answer so far to the question that has been preoccupying designers from Paris to Milan this season: how to reinvent trousers for the modern man.Prada and Calvin Klein proposed leggings and Yves Saint Laurent offered flannel...

In the new world of fashion marketing, it's all about flooding the zone.Brands like Stella McCartney and Yves Saint Laurent, which showed their latest ready-to-wear collections in Paris on Thursday, have understood that glossy magazine advertisements are no longer the most effective way of reaching...