Reuters – Italian fashion house Salvatore Ferragamo has said its menswear designer Massimiliano Giornetti will also take on women’s ready-to-wear.

Reuters – A proposed new law that would extend copyright protection to clothing has designers in an uproar and threatens to widen a rift in the American fashion industry.

Reuters – Christian Lacroix staged what could be his last haute couture show in Paris on Tuesday, displaying a stripped-down, mostly black collection put together with the help of friends and artisans who worked for free.