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  • Gird your loins! Jockstraps are still holding up after 150 years

    March 07, 2024 - 9:08 AM

    NEW YORK (AP) — Happy 150th birthday, dear jockstrap. How far you've come from your modest but mighty days of protecting the precious parts of bicycle messengers as they navigated the bumpy cobblestones of Boston.

  • Victoria's Secret overhauls its racy fashion catwalk in the company's latest move to be inclusive

    September 07, 2023 - 4:44 PM

    NEW YORK (AP) — For more than 20 years, Victoria’s Secret had bolstered its image built on a man’s vision of sexiness with one big annual event: its fashion catwalk extravaganza, with supermodels like Naomi Campbell sashaying down the runway in Swarovski-crystal covered wings, thongs and million-dollar fantasy bras.

  • Companies are finding it's not so simple to leave Russia. Some are quietly staying put

    May 25, 2023 - 8:31 AM

    When Russia invaded Ukraine, global companies were quick to respond, some announcing they would get out of Russia immediately, others curtailing imports or new investment. Billions of dollars' worth of factories, energy holdings and power plants were written off or put up for sale, accompanied by fierce condemnation of the war and expressions of solidarity with Ukraine.

  • Diverse designers headline Milan Fashion Week Day 5

    February 25, 2023 - 3:20 PM

    MILAN (AP) — Designers with diverse backgrounds figured prominently in shows on the fourth day of Milan Fashion Week, during a season when diversity in Italian fashion has become an every more pressing topic.

  • Diesel, Fendi, No. 21 show some skin at Milan Fashion Week

    February 24, 2023 - 3:08 AM

    MILAN (AP) — Sexiness is in the air at Milan Fashion Week, where brands are encouraging people to show some skin next fall and winter.

  • Kim Kardashian culls Dolce&Gabbana archives for Milan show

    September 24, 2022 - 3:10 PM

    MILAN (AP) — Kim Kardashian took Milan by storm on Saturday, curating a new collection for Dolce&Gabbana that took inspiration from 20 years of archival looks.

  • Breast cancer survivor and lingerie designer shatters taboos

    May 09, 2022 - 1:08 PM

    NEW YORK (AP) — When Dana Donofree had a bilateral mastectomy and implant reconstruction after her breast cancer diagnosis in 2010, the then 28-year-old fashion designer discovered only medical and uncomfortable bras catering to women with the disease.

  • Once a retail giant, Kmart nears extinction after closure

    April 11, 2022 - 8:38 AM

    AVENEL, N.J. (AP) — The familiar sights and sounds are still there: the scuffed and faded floor tiles, the relentless beige-on-beige color scheme, the toddlers' clothes and refrigerators and pretty much everything in between.

  • Pandemic throws lives - and waistlines - into flux

    July 20, 2020 - 11:17 AM

    NEW YORK - When Allison Weiss Brady and Michael Ladin emerged from weeks of locking down during the pandemic, they needed new clothes in new sizes — for different reasons.

  • Friendly kissing poses European dilemma as virus spreads

    March 01, 2020 - 1:11 AM

    MILAN - When French President Emmanuel Macron leaned in to give Premier Giuseppe Conte the Italian double-cheek kiss not once, but on two separate occasions, during a Franco-Italian summit in Naples this week, it was much more than a greeting.
  • iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
    Following are emailed reader responses to stories or letters to the editor for the third week of April 2024. They have been edited slightly for readability.  Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall Jones at mjo
  • Discharge coming from the Sandher Fruit Packer plant. Fruit packers near Kelowna fined another $78,000
    A fruit packing plant in the Ellison area east of Kelowna was hit with another $78,368 in fines for discharging effluent into a failed septic field. That’s now more than $110,000 in fines since 2022 for the same issue at Sandher Fruit

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