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NEW YORK--Is fashion retailing becoming hell on wheels? For years certain retailers have been willing to take merchandise on consignment, or 'on wheels,' in industry jargon. But while retailers claim [...]

MEMO PAD MARIO AT THE MUSEUM: Remember the days when fashion photographers were relatively unknown to everyone but the cognoscenti? Well, they're long gone. Just ask Mario Testino , who [...]

Byline: Sharon Edelson and Kate Bowers Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is said to be close to making a move to combat Tesco as the U.K. supermarket giant launches a convenience store [...]

Byline: David Moin, Contributions from Marcy Medina and Rachel Brown, Los Angeles; Kate Bowers, Boston, and Sharon Edelson, New York Post-Christmas clearances and gift card redemptions have brought some relief [...]

Byline: David Moin, With contributions by Anne Riley-Katz, Los Angeles; Kate Bowers, Boston; Georgia Lee, Atlanta, and Rusty Williamson, Dallas After a holiday shopping period that so far has been [...]

Byline: David Moin, With contributions by Rachel Brown and Marcy Medina, Los Angeles; Kate Bowers, Boston; Rusty Williamson, Dallas; Georgia Lee, Atlanta, and Evan Clark, Washington Hold your breath. This [...]

INGLEWOOD, Calif. -- Bad timing and poor p.r. Those were the factors that contributed to a surprisingly overwhelming loss for Wal-Mart as Inglewood voters said no thanks to a supercenter. [...]

NEW YORK -- Call it the Kmart surprise. With its first profitable quarter in three years and a hot stock, Kmart Holding Corp. is back on the retail radar, which [...]

BOSTON -- Ciao, Italia, Wal-Mart might be about to come calling. The Bentonville, Ark., giant is said to have made a play for high-end Italian supermarket chain Esselunga, a private [...]

Under its dust, Rhode Island's costume jewelry business still glitters with rhinestones. Even though the majority of costume jewelry houses that once made this city a global production hub are [...]

Boston silversmith Paul Revere may have galloped into history books, but in Providence, fame belongs to silversmith Nehemiah Dodge for forging affordable glamour. At the turn of the 19th century, [...]

LONDON -- Will the world's biggest retailer soon own the world's biggest clothing brand? Andy Bond thinks so. Indeed, the managing director of Wal-Mart/Asda's George clothing brand is hoping the [...]

America is in the middle of its annual summer migrations, and the good news for retailers is that many tourists have their credit cards out. Store and mall executives at [...]

NEW YORK -- What's fashion's summer sizzler? It starts with T and ends with shirt, with cargo pants a close second. According to a spot check of specialty and department [...]

Byline: Joshua Greene, Julee Greenberg, Kate Bowers and Kristin Young They don't have sororities, football teams or biology departments, but America's design schools may still be the best place for [...]

Byline: Kate Bowers, Brooke Magnaghi, Meenal Mistry and Anamaria Wilson Of course, there are more than just ten fashionable colleges and universities in the U.S. More, in fact, than even [...]

LAST CALL: Jared Gold is giving the highly theatrical looks on which he built his rep one last showing Sunday night, along with the fall presentations of his 'couture' Jared [...]

NEW YORK -- American retail presence at next week's European fashion shows is fading fast. Tuesday afternoon, Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman confirmed they were canceling their [...]

LOS ANGELES -- The effects of Tuesday's calamity continue to reverberate throughout the apparel industry on the West Coast as retailers and manufacturers returned to work, and traffic here resumed [...]

NEW YORK -- The junior market, always a fickle and volatile area, is looking even rougher than usual these days. Most vendors in this market aren't expecting fall and holiday [...]

LOS ANGELES -- E-marketplace services provider Fasturn Inc. has named former Oracle executive Bill Seagrave as chief executive officer. Seagrave, who was vice president of application sales at high tech [...]

NEW YORK -- Beauty was one of the few bright spots this dismal holiday season. Despite all the doom and gloom predicted before Christmas, some stores managed to pull in [...]

LOS ANGELES -- Entrepreneur Gina Pell and partner Zem Spires have spent the last eight months getting their teeth bleached, their pores purged and their taste buds tantalized. They've done [...]

LOS ANGELES -- A young blonde, wriggling along with Desi Arnaz in the Copacabana's conga line in New York, catches the eye of Twentieth Century Fox founder Joseph M. Schenck. [...]