Japanese main cosmetics firms' bet that their women customers will pay top dollar for anti-aging creams have paid off and now all three may shift strategies to focus on recession-proof luxury items.
Beauty is not so much in the eye of the beholder as in the measurements between the eyes, mouth and ears of the woman being observed, US and Canadian researchers have found.
Tiger Woods lost backing from his third major sponsor in a week when Swiss watchmaker Tag Heuer revealed it is dropping the golf star from US advertising campaigns in the wake of his sex scandal.
A campaign in communist North Korea against untidy and foreign hairstyles was launched on the orders of leader Kim Jong-Il, a South Korean welfare group says.
It has been five years since Gucci first launched its campaign to raise funds for Unicef. This year, Gucci has chosen the children’s book “Snowman in Africa” by Michael Roberts as the theme.
Reese Witherspoon, Global Ambassador for Avon, headlined a press conference at the House of Commons to promote a powerful new campaign from Avon Cosmetics and Refuge against domestic violence.
A female Brazilian student who was expelled from a Sao Paulo university after her short dress sparked student protests has been allowed back after federal prosecutors opened an investigation into the case.
For the past two centuries the tailors of Savile Row in London have dressed the world's finest in bespoke suits -- but now they face a fight to defend their prestige image.
Japan's swimmers could face lifetime bans if they dye their hair, wear an earring or have brightly decorated fingernails.
An advert for pure silk pillowcases which claimed they had anti-aging qualities and made hair look beautiful was banned by Britain's Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) for being misleading.
U.S. clothing chain Gap Inc (GPS.N) plans to open its first store in China next year as it seeks new international opportunities to counteract a protracted domestic sales slump at its main brand.
A Islamist lawmaker called for the head of the most prestigious centre of religious learning in the Sunni Muslim world to resign after he told a schoolgirl to remove the veil covering her face.
Women dressed in stark black, their faces veiled and their hands sometimes gloved, are becoming a common sight in Cairo, a trend that worries the government as it battles a lurch towards fundamentalism.
As blue-eyed blondes increasingly hog the catwalks, discrimination is also at work in the weird and wonderful world of the fashion mannequin.
Mia may be only seven years old but the Lebanese youngster knows what she wants: a manicure and pedicure in purple, a golden star stenciled onto her hair, and a facial.