He says a sort of "design imperialism" means that French fashion houses often play down the fact that their fabrics are made outside France. "The houses which don't admit it are perhaps afraid of ...

By Felicia Craddock Reporting from Roumens, France On an overcast day late last ... most of which are commissioned by fashion designers. In previous weeks, the workshop’s drying racks had ...

Now, after several years of restoration work, the 1,600-year-old textile has ... fabric found in a French necropolis, go inside the history of crinoline, the fatal fashion trend of the Victorian ...