
Brussels: The European Union banned the wife of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad from travelling to the EU or shopping with European companies in a move to stop her buying the Chanel dresses and Louboutin shoes she craves. The EU's latest round of sanctions, which also targeted the president's mother and sister, is notable for including Assad's London-born wife Asma, whose luxury shopping habit was laid bare this month in a...

11:50 PM, Mar 23, 2012

New York: A new book about the life of Coco Chanel published in the United States on Tuesday aims to strengthen claims the French designer collaborated with the Nazis during World War II as a spy code-named "Westminster." The book, "Sleeping With The Enemy: Coco Chanel's Secret War," by Paris-based American journalist Hal Vaughan, claims that not only was the designer the lover of a German officer, Hans Gunther von...

10:43 AM, Aug 17, 2011

Constructed around a flimsy premise, the plot of
Yes Man is really a limp one. ...

12:45 AM, Dec 20, 2008

Estee Lauder is making a direct entry like Chanel in the luxury segment. ...

03:52 AM, Jun 25, 2008