Elizabeth Arden Inc has bought the global licenses to fragrances by entertainers Justin Bieber and Nicki Minaj, adding to a roster of celebrity brands that already includes Britney Spears and Mariah Carey.

The American group, celebrating its ten years in Europe, is preparing to launch its Ocean Minded brand, a range of brightly coloured, light shoes which dry quickly and are water-resilient.

Italian fashion designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, who count model Naomi Campbell and pop star Madonna among their friends, will stand trial over alleged tax evasion, according to legal sources and a court filing seen by Reuters.

The artistic director of Aquascutum since 2010, Joanna Sykes, will leave her position at the end of the month, the British brand announced at Womens Wear Daily. We do not yet know the identity of her successor within the brand, which was acquired by YGM Trading in May.

Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen on Tuesday launched a contest to discover new talent in Brazil's shantytowns, promising to reward the winner with a modeling contract.

Shahnaz Husain was a bored Indian housewife when she spotted a gap in the beauty-treatment market and single-handedly set about building a global corporate empire.

For a fashion designer it is a unique task: dressing a woman who must be immediately recognisable from Antigua to Zimbabwe, visible from a distance, bright, dignified and immune to wardrobe malfunctions.

Thailand's government is up in arms over a tweet by pop sensation Lady Gaga about buying a fake designer watch in a Bangkok street market and has complained to the United States.

The celebrity auction held during dinner got off to a slow start, prompting those with the microphone to cajole, abuse and name and shame to ramp up the prices.

Tesco boss Philip Clarke has passed up an annual bonus of about 372,000 pounds ($588,000) after the retailer's poor performance in its main British market, heading off a potential outcry by investors increasingly critical of executive pay.

Jennifer Lopez has topped the annual Forbes list of the 100 most powerful celebrities in the world, taking over from fellow pop singer Lady Gaga and beating out media mogul Oprah Winfrey.

Vidal Sassoon, hair stylist and fashion world icon who created a natural look in the 1960s and built a multi-million dollar business on his name, has died of apparent natural causes at his home in Los Angeles. He was 84.

Indian designers are famous for their elaborate embroideries and rich textiles but have yet to come up with products to woo the world's fashion hotspots in the West, says Manish Arora, the international face of India's fashion industry.

Former supermodel Linda Evangelista's 5-year-old son Augustin is unlikely to lack pocket money after his billionaire father made an out-of-court settlement for child support in New York on Monday.

The editors of all 19 editions of Vogue around the world pledged Thursday to use only healthy models no younger than 16 on their editorial pages in an attempt to shift fashion's approach to body image.