She stunned global cinema audiences with her controversial and Oscar-nominated performance as a lonely deaf girl in the film "Babel." Rinko Kikuchi is one of Japan's hottest young actresses and models, recently working with Karl Lagerfeld as the new face of Channel. Despite her success, she remains an unconventional figure in Japan, at odds with the traditional demure image of the Japanese woman and forging a career on her own terms. Talk Asia follows her on a modelling assignment, discusses how her life has changed since "Babel" and revisits the unique location of one of the film's most important scenes.
Karl Lagerfeld lamented the decision by Valentino to retire next year, saying Wednesday that he feared the 75-year-old Italian would find life after fashion a bore
Just about every fashion designer starts small. Before Marc Jacobs, Donna Karan, Calvin Klein, and Ralph Lauren became eponymous empires, they were entrepreneurs, struggling to get their designs se...
LUXURY BRANDS LIKE LOUIS VUITTON and Hermès have long thrived on the thrill of scarcity: Women scramble to get on wait lists for the season's "it" bag or must-have trench. This fall big chains like...
She stunned global cinema audiences with her controversial and Oscar-nominated performance as a lonely deaf girl in the film "Babel." Rinko Kikuchi is one of Japan's hottest young actresses and models, recently working with Karl Lagerfeld as the new face of Channel. Despite her success, she remains an unconventional figure in Japan, at odds with the traditional demure image of the Japanese woman and forging a career on her own terms. Talk Asia follows her on a modelling assignment, discusses how her life has changed since "Babel" and revisits the unique location of one of the film's most important scenes.
Karl Lagerfeld lamented the decision by Valentino to retire next year, saying Wednesday that he feared the 75-year-old Italian would find life after fashion a bore
Just about every fashion designer starts small. Before Marc Jacobs, Donna Karan, Calvin Klein, and Ralph Lauren became eponymous empires, they were entrepreneurs, struggling to get their designs se...
LUXURY BRANDS LIKE LOUIS VUITTON and Hermès have long thrived on the thrill of scarcity: Women scramble to get on wait lists for the season's "it" bag or must-have trench. This fall big chains like...
Target has its Philippe Starck, H&M has its Karl Lagerfeld, and now Zephyr Ventilation has its Fu-Tung Cheng. Zephyr, a $20-million-a-year San Francisco--based manufacturer of kitchen ventilation h...
Last April, after a highly publicized power struggle over creative control at Gucci, Tom Ford, the company's creative director, left the Milan fashion house and headed to Hollywood. Ford, 43, who i...
Four years ago Rolf Eriksen, CEO of the Swedish fashion discounter H&M, opened the outfit's first emporium in the U.S., on Fifth Avenue in New York City. Last quarter for the first time, the $7.4...
It's the vacation spot of choice for everyone from Oscar winner Jack Nicholson and model Claudia Schiffer to fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld and Latin singer Luis Miguel.
Picking the right fund may be the main event in your quest for the perfect 401(k), but there are other considerations. Getting great returns without working out the tax implications is like wearing...
As if designer clothes, jewelry, and perfume weren't enough, now we've got couture plants. Karl Lagerfeld of Chanel has weighed in with his idea of what Coco Chanel--who spent the last half of her ...
If some top designers have their way, hemlines will plunge this fall, stirring up the old brouhaha over long, short, and freedom of choice. As heralded by fashion journals like Women's Wear Daily, ...
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