Fashion News

"Our bags are complete trash" may not strike you as the perfect sales pitch. But one Ghanaian entrepreneur would beg to disagree. His Trashy Bags venture is turning the scourge of discarded plastic that litters this corner of west Africa into a cool fashion accessory.

This St. Patrick’s Day marks the convergence of several fashion factors: French shoe designer Pierre Hardy’s capsule collection for Gap European Editions arrives in select Canadian Gap stores (on a two-week delay from the U.S. delivery) and Day One of L’Oreal Fashion Week, showing the fall/winter collections of designers from across Canada. By another lucky coincidence, leprechaun green -- as in both eco and the shade, is hot hot hot (as the style-speak goes). Project Runway Canada bad-boy Evan Biddell is the first show this afternoon.

Fashion is getting back to nature, in a riot of colourful floral patterns to be seen all over the catwalks. And if designers are mad about flora, quite a few are even keener on fauna and, more specifically, on adorning their creations with large amounts of plumage courtesy of our feathered friends. That all sounds rather heart-warming, but fashion can always be counted on to be fickle, and this season she has excelled herself.

Fox has a penchant for pain and offered Posh Spice, aka Victoria Beckham, a fashion reality series called Fashion Nightmares.

Peri Drysdale - the creator of Christchurch Fashion house Untouched World - is working on a new online strategy to lessen her reliance on bricks-and-mortar retail outlets.

PARIS: At last! Clothes so strong, interesting and often colorful that they are designed to turn the focus off accessories and on to what is stalking the runway. "Baroque minimalism," announced Christian Lacroix, to describe his show on Wednesday of sculpted outfits that, whether in black or zingy colors, were always based on black hose and knee-high boots.

UCLUELET, B.C. - She may live in New York and help dress some of North America's biggest stars, but Kemal Harris hasn't forgotten her humble roots on Vancouver Island's West Coast.

JENSEN BEACH - Call it the mother of all panty raids. About 500 pairs of women's underwear were reported missing Friday from the Victoria's Secret store in the Treasure Coast Square mall.

BERLIN — A new store is selling fashions produced and inspired by prisoners, including a T-shirt designed by inmates in Texas.

A ban on animal testing next year has spurred scientists into cultivating human tissue. Jacqui Thornton reports