`He has been quietly stalking her around the 17th Century mansion. Furtive glances over breakfast, a “chance” meeting by the squash court. Now who is that behind the antler hat stand?” She strolls ...

The 1970s coffee table told a story. Today, your coffee table might be bare, and the “catalogs” have mostly moved into your ...

Gun Denhart and her husband, Tom, broke all the rules when they began their own business 12 years ago. Without knowing anything about mail order or the children’s clothing industry, they quit their ...

Fashion might be a magic show, but don't confuse the model with the magician. That role belongs to the photographer, the art director, the person who lays the graphics down and around the beautiful ...

Finding work as a model is tough. If you learn anything from America’s Top Model, you know that competition is fierce, nobody is there to make friends, and there’s a lot of crying. But now, models are ...

Spark Notes is a recurring series about the lightbulb moments in sexual development. For homosexuals of my generation, certain phrases held very specific but not exactly standard meanings. Every ’80s ...

The private-equity owner of the women’s clothing catalogs Spiegel and Newport News is close to buying Massachusetts-based mail-order company Appleseed’s, according to sources familiar with the deal.

I’m not sure when it happened but fashion has decided we women of a certain age need to dress like clowns. Billowy, technicolor, ruffled things that seem designed to make everyone stare when we walk ...