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• Two held after Paris jeweller e-scooter robbery

  16 hours ago - Fashion

  Paris - French police arrested two suspects on Wednesday after a robbery at famed Parisian jeweller Chaumet where a thief made off with up to three million

• Parisian jeweller robbed, thief gets away on segway

  Jul. 28, 2021 - Fashion

  An armed man using a stand-up scooter Tuesday robbed famed Parisian jeweller Chaumet of up to three million euros worth of jewellery in an audacious evening heist, a source close to the case said.

• Cannes fashion: The good, the bad and the plain weird

  Jul. 19, 2021 - Culture

  Cannes - With so few red carpets to walk this past year, stars, celebs and the world's sharpest-elbowed influencers piled onto the "tapis rouge" at the Cannes

• Yemeni model in rebel jail attempts suicide

  Jul. 2, 2021 - People

  Dubai - A young Yemeni model has attempted suicide in a Sanaa jail run by Huthi rebels enforcing a strict moral code, rights groups and her lawyer said. En

• Grande dame of Paris department stores reopens after 16-year renovation

  Jun. 22, 2021 - Retail

  Parisians will once again be able to stroll the gilded

• Paris fashion week SS22: houses eyeing a physical return to catwalks

  Jun. 22, 2021 - Fashion

  France's fashion houses are tip-toeing back on to the catwalk

• Barcelona Street Vendors Union launches game-changing sneaker brand

  Jun. 19, 2021 - Fashion

  When he left Senegal, risking his life to make the dangerous

• MFW SS22: 'baby steps' back to normality

  Jun. 18, 2021 - Fashion

  Lights, camera, real live audiences -- Milan fashion welcomes back actual people to its shows Friday, a sign the industry is ready to start turning the page on virtual formats adopted during the pandemic.

• "Africa is the future": Nigerian models take over fashion's runways

  Jun. 21, 2021 - Fashion

  Champagne corks popped and sequins sparkled like a thousand tiny stars in Nigeria's economic capital Lagos, where an international model casting was on the hunt for the face of the future.

• Israel bans sale of fur in fashion trade

  Jun. 10, 2021 - Fashion

  Jerusalem - Israel announced a ban Wednesday on the sale of fur in the fashion trade, winning applause from the International Anti-Fur Coalition as the "first