By Elaine Donnelly
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Italian-born French designer Pierre Cardin is being honored by his native Veneto region for his artistic achievements and his ambitious plan to build a glass skyscraper to revitalize Venice's industrial port.
French fashion designer Pierre Cardin has designed a gift meant as an economic catalyst for Venice and the region: a 250-meter (800-foot)-tall glass skyscraper housing a fashion university, luxury hotel suites and shops.
Britain's iconic Houses of Parliament in London could close for up to five years while essential repairs are carried out, the Sunday Times newspaper said.
The start of haute couture week in Paris is a must on any self-respecting fashionista's calendar.
The start of haute couture week in Paris is a must on any self-respecting fashionista's calendar.
The nation's new poet laureate — Natasha Tretheway — will be telling her own story, in prose.
They didn't really know it at the time, but the black models who walked in the Versailles fashion face-off in France in 1973 carved a path on the catwalk for generations to come.
A new modesty swept the catwalks on Wednesday's Day Two of the marathon Paris spring-summer 2011 ready-to-wear displays, with designers shunning sizzling sex appeal in favor of oversized, grandma-friendly looks that left nearly everything to the imagination.
Cardin said his show Wednesday was made up of "timeless pieces."
"What was young and fresh 40 years ago is still young and fresh today," he told The Associated Press in a backstage interview. "I'm like a painter, a writer, a musician, I have my own style. I don't copy anyone, and really it's more the others who copy me."
