Chanel's Mothball Suits Show Timeless Chic

Hole-ridden tweed suits that looked like they'd been devoured by generations of moths opened Chanel's spring-summer 2011 ready-to-wear show

Chefs See Restaurant Gardens As Sizzling New Trend

Gardens have been named the hottest trend in restaurants this year as more chefs involved with the eat local food movement decide to grow

Lanvin Pleases Tough Crowd with Varied Collection

Love was in the air at Paris' spring-summer 2011 ready-to-wear shows on Friday, as Lanvin's sumptuous confections worked the world weary

Qing Dynasty Bronzes Focus of French Legal Battle

A French judge Monday refused to halt the sale of disputed Chinese bronze fountainheads heading for Christie's auction block as part of fashion designer Yves ...

Issey Miyake Unleashes Profusion of Crayon Colors

Japanese label Issey Miyake sent out a spinning wheel of color for its eye-popping spring-summer 2010 ready-to-wear collection Friday. Models in watercolor print leggings and ...

Lie Sang Bong Brings Fresh Elegance to Paris

Designer Lie Sang Bong brought a breath of fresh air to Paris with his Spring Summer 2010 ready-to-wear collection Thursday. Lie used unconventional drapes mostly ...

China's Lady Dai Superbly Preserved at 2,150

Lady Dai was a Chinese nobleman's wife in her mid-50s when she died of a heart attack. She was overweight, had diabetes, high blood pressure, ...

Black's Back Bigtime at New York Fashion Week

Fashion for spring is back in black. Black never went anywhere, of course — it's a perennial favorite with the crowd at New York Fashion ...

New York Fashion Week Kicks Off with Star-Studded Night Out

The fashion industry put on its most glamorous face at New York Fashion Week on Thursday, presenting a star-studded overture to reluctant recessionistas. Shoppers crammed ...

Taiwan Master Craftsman Hardens Swords with Human Bones

The sword-maker inserts an 18-inch shaft of metal into his red-hot kiln. Then he adds his special ingredient: a human thighbone. The bone, says Kuo ...

Fugetsu-Do: History Made Delicious

I felt like a wide-eyed five-year-old drooling at the supermarket candy section. But instead of Hershey’s and gummy worms my beady little eyes were darting ...

Whale Meat Still a Japanese Favorite Despite Protests

As diners sit down to lunches of whale meat in Tokyo and elsewhere across the nation, Japan's whaling fleet is on its annual hunt in ...

Obama Presidency Marks End of Long Boomer Era

When George W. Bush lifts off in his helicopter on Inauguration Day, leaving Washington to make way for Barack Obama, he may not be the ...

Sex Appeal Featured at Hong Kong Fall/Winter Fashion Week

The 40th Annual Hong Kong Fashion Week for Fall/Winter, Asia's largest and the world's second-largest such event, is being held at the Convention and Exhibition ...

Slumdog Soundtrack Work of Celebrated Indian Composer

The soaring "Slumdog Millionaire" soundtrack's three Oscar nominations and Golden Globe award marked many Americans' first exposure to the music of A.R. Rahman. But in ...

Chinese Dream Inspires Armani Spring-Summer Collection

Italian couturier Giorgio Armani looked east with a rich, cinematographic display Monday inspired by China. Armani called the country "a dream" and denied that China's ...

Celine, YSL Strut Officegirl Chic

It was the moment the fashion world has been waiting for, the return of wildly popular designer Phoebe Philo, whose calm and collected debut spring-summer ...

Barbie Right at Home in Fashion-Focused Shanghai

What better way for a fashion icon to mark her 50th birthday but with a bash in China's city of chic — Shanghai? A half-century ...

Obamas' Honolulu Faves Include Indigo, Rainbow Drive-In

Rainbow Drive-In in Kapahulu is known for its delicious local food served up in a box. It's located about a mile west of Waikiki on ...

Bi-Racial Asian American Becomes Japanese Enka Star

As a boy, Jerome White Jr. often spent weekends at his grandparents' house, where a melodramatic genre of Japanese music called enka would waft in ...

Indian Designers Featured at Lakme Fashion Week 2009

Surprising Asian Oasis in Simi Valley

Okay, so Ventura County isn't exactly the Dakota Badlands but it isn't most people's idea of Asian Food Heaven either. Well, buster, cruise on over ...

Japanese Couple Wins World Tango Competition

A Japanese couple outdanced the Argentines and more to win the traditional salon category at the Tango Dance World Championship. Hiroshi Yamao and Kyoko Yamao ...

Chinese Gays Step Quietly Toward Official Tolerance

Despite facing previous shutdowns, Cui Zi’en and other organizers successfully launched the Beijing Queer Film Festival, alongside a sexual diversity art exhibition and Shanghai's first ...

Makana's Slack Key Guitar Resonates with Aloha Spirit

Makana attributes this integrated style to the early Hawaiian guitarists' need to be a "whole band" with a single instrument, brought to the islands by ...

China Plans New Terracotta Warrior Dig

Plans include a third excavation of the Terracotta Army near Xi'an, focusing on a 2,152-square-foot area within the main pit to uncover more officer figures ...

Scenes from Hong Kong's Annual Dragon Boat Races

Dragon Boat racing has been a Chinese tradition for about 2,000 years. Today annual Dragon Boat races are held in many cities around the world, ...

Koreans Least Obese, Japanese Watch Most TV

Despite the moderate amount of time Americans spend eating each day — about an hour and a quarter — U.S. obesity rates are the highest ...

Google Earth Causes Uproar with Maps of Old Japan

When Google Earth added historical maps of Japan to its online collection last year, the search giant didn’t expect a backlash. The finely detailed woodblock ...

50 Things That Changed Our Lives in the Aughts

Was it only a decade ago that a blackberry was a mere summer fruit? That green was, well, a color, and reality TV was that ...

Asians 14 of 20 Top-Selling Contemporary Artists

Asians comprise 14 of the top 20 contemporary artists as of the onset of the Great Recession in August 2008, based on proceeds of art ...

Urban Meat Lovers Learn to Butcher Their Own

Get out your knives and prepare to get blood on your clothes: more Americans are learning how to butcher their own meat.

Dancers from China, Korea Medal at Ballet Competition

Dancers from China, Portugal and South Korea received top awards Friday at the two-week USA International Ballet Competition in Mississippi.

Asian Dancers Dominate Ballet Competition

Asians are dominating the stage as the USA International Ballet Competition heads into its final round, with nearly half the 34 finalists

Issey Miyake Goes Geometric at Paris Day 3

Sultry Amazons in negligees and jodhpurs and modern-day Nefertitis in identical blunt-cut black wigs skulked Paris' catwalk on Friday, as the French capital's fall-winter 2010-11

Little Saigon Teacher Keeps Vietnamese Opera Alive

Ngoc Bay purses her feet together and glides to the left, then to the right, guiding her eight-year-old pupil in the subtle movements of the ...

Richard Chai Among First NY Fashion Week Designers

The models were rounding the runway for the finale of the first show at New York Fashion Week Thursday when the crowd began to buzz ...

Janice Lee's Piano Teacher Becomes Paperback Bestseller

Novelist Janice Y.K. Lee is flying in a better class. "I came in here from Hong Kong and decided to treat myself and upgrade

Issey Miyake Brews Up Coffee-Inspired Men's Line

The French capital's menswear displays started with a caffeine rush on Thursday, as Japanese label Issey Miyake sent out a coffee-soaked

California Wine Growers Add Green to Red and White

Consumers of California wine easily can tell a red cabernet from a white chardonnay, and soon they will have a tool to determine whether it's ...

Muslim Hindu Punk Rock Band Bridges Deep Contradictions

Artwork from the Punjab state of India decorates the Ray family home. A Johann Sebastian Bach statue sits on a piano. But in the basement

Bollywood Ice Dance Wins Indian Fans for Davis & White

Bollywood has produced another blockbuster. Meryl Davis and Charlie White's unique, Indian-themed original dance is a hit all over the globe, with people from Michigan ...

Young Designers Raise Eyebrows in Shanghai

Some startling creations by China’s top fashion graduates and students were displayed at China Fashion Week held in Beijing, Sunday, March 29, 2009.

Turquoise Predicted to Be Fashion Color of 2010

If color is any guide, we'll be moving into vacation mode in 2010 with the world awash in tropical turquoise, forecasters say.

Wedding Gowns Satisfy Big Dreams on Small Budgets

Many brides positively know what their wedding gown will look like long before they meet their groom, and they're not going to let a little ...

Midtown Japanese Showcase

If you're looking for a Japanese restaurant that offers intimacy and those quaint little touches that say you've stumbled across a special place to call ...

Indian Americans Face Conflicts of Cultural Perception

To 12-year-old Suzannah Pabla, piercing her nose was a way to connect with her roots in India. To Suzannah's school, it was a dress-code violation ...

Designer Ice Adds Cool New Dimension to Cocktails

Erik Adkins spends a lot of time on ice. As general manager of the Heaven's Dog bar in San Francisco he's very particular about what ...

U-2 Adapts to Changing Social, Music Climate

Even while maintaining its status as one of the few musical acts that can still fill stadiums, U2 is struck by how quickly its world ...

Korean Boy Band Takes Persona Tour Across Asia

5-man Korean boy band SS501 (pronounced Double-S 5-0-1) will perform a concert at the Taipei Arena on October 16 as part of their Personal Asia ...