Fashion

  Relaxnews Withings is launching a special-edition Activité fitness tracker for Holiday 2016. As its name suggests, the Steel Gold comes with a steel case coated in 24-carat gold. The Steel Gold is a limited-edition fitness tracker in the Withings Activité smartwatch range. It has a gold-coated watchcase and comes with a choice of two exclusive straps, one made from ...

  Relaxnews This year’s new ski gear is all about performance and comfort. Here’s a look at some of the latest, most innovative products heading for the slopes this season. SKI BOOTS Salomon X Pro Custom Heat If your feet are often cold in ski boots, then Salomon’s X Pro Custom Heat with heated liner are just the job. They ...

  Los Angeles / AFP The figure-hugging gown Marilyn Monroe wore to serenade President John F. Kennedy for his 45th birthday smashed its guide price to sell for $4.8 million at auction on Thursday. The flesh-colored dress, adorned with 2,500 hand-stitched crystals, had been expected to fetch between $2-3 million, Julien’s Auctions in Beverly Hills said. It went to Ripley’s ...

  La Paz/ AFP Centuries ago, Spanish colonizers forced their Bolivian servants to wear the puffy skirts that have come to symbolize the country’s “cholitas,” or indigenous women. Today, one local designer is turning the tables with plans to export high-end cholita fashion — blossoming skirts, bowler hats and intricately woven shawls — to Madrid, Paris and beyond. Fresh off ...

  Bloomberg After years of steady growth and skyrocketing prices, luxury watchmakers are facing slowing sales in 2016, spurring some to introduce elite models for the first time in steel this year (such as Blancpain’s Villeret Quantieme Annuel GMT) and others to deliver complications such as tourbillons and perpetual calendars at more attractive prices. “This is consistent with watch brands ...

  Bloomberg Stylish guys love pocket watches – James Dean carried one, while Johnny Depp and Justin Timberlake also have been spotted wearing them. At the Baselworld watch fair in March, they proved popular as well. Hermes debuted a trio from its Arceau Pocket Promenade de Platon collection showcasing the beauty of Grand Feu enamel work; a silk scarf that ...

  Emirates Business Label Ritu Kumar’s latest festival chic collection is modern and progressive clothing, which gives one an effortless urbane look. Explore the world in this collection, with its simple style, bohemian flair, and cheerful colours to unleash your inner traveller. This collection symbolises elegance and sophistication, while ensuring every piece is functional and wearable. Choose from various long ...

  Relaxnews The second part of the sale of fashion magnate Pierre Berge’s famous library — one of the most valuable in private hands — raised nearly five million euros (£5.5 million) Wednesday when it went under the hammer in Paris. Some of the most rare first editions of classics of 19th century European literature were among the 376 works ...

  Relaxnews Fashion designer Stella McCartney unveiled her first menswear collection recently at London’s famous Abbey Road recording studio, where she promised men a more free and fun wardrobe. McCartney chose to present the collection at the recording studio made famous by her father, Paul McCartney, and his three fellow Beatles when they named one of their albums after Abbey ...

  Troy Patterson / Bloomberg Buried on page 86 of the October J. Crew catalog is a sentence to chill the blood of any man who has shopped for clothing in the past five years: “We widened our ties by ¼” to keep up with today’s changing proportions.” It is almost an aside. Nearly an afterthought! But for the loyal ...