2006 June

It would be difficult to find a fashion designer who personifies modern design sensibilities like Jean-Paul Gaultier. He burst onto the fashion scene during the 1980s and turned an industry showing signs of rigor mortis on its collective ear. Gaultier

Any fan of the popular television series

There are 60 million people in the United States alone under the age of fifteen. Approximately half of those are under the age of ten. This impressive number is just one of many reasons that children

If you were to take a poll of people with no knowledge of fashion designers and ask them to name one there is a good chance that the one name they could come up with is Gucci. The name carries status that few brand names can match, perhaps Rolex watches and Rolls Royce automobiles.

Opening day is the date marked on the calendar of sports fans with the reddest ink and watched more closely than anniversaries and birthdays combined. There is something special about Major League Baseball

In the 1920s the French chemist Rene Gattefosse coined the term aromatherapy to describe the use of essential oils taken from plants to affect the physical and psychological health of an individual. He famously performed an experiment in which he intentionally burned his hand and treated it by applying lavender oil. His journal reported an immediate end of the pain.

Last month Ebay made an appearance before the Supreme Court to argue a rather strange position. The court listened without much visible enthusiasm to Ebay attorney Carter Phillips as he explained how even though a company can be found liable for infringing on another

There is no doubt that color has a tremendous affect on how we feel, both mentally and physically. Most people have colors that they believe they look good in and will wear few others. The

Marilyn Monroe is famously quoted as answering the question of what she wore to bed with

Many colorful adjectives were applied to Italian designer Franco Moschino during his lifetime; macho, iconoclastic, and abrasive just to name a few. It is commonplace to describe designers as being irreverent and shocking but Moschino’s open contempt for most design conventions were real and he proved it with styles that can only be described as hysterical.

According to information provided by the National Association of Convenience Stores there are more than 135,000 convenience stores in the United States alone. Texas leads the nation with close to 15,000 convenience stores. The Association

The fashion designer largely responsible for Jacqueline Kennedy

Any time you talk with experienced online retailers sooner or later they will voice their frustration with shopping cart abandonment. I don

Untold millions of bras sell across the world everyday. Almost every woman owns several if not dozens and the bra is fundamental part of her wardrobe. Despite what could be describe as a national obsession with them we know very little of their history and evolution.

The frost and snow have moved on to the southern hemisphere at last. Warmer weather is upon us and the change of seasons can mean only one thing to online wholesalers, a rush on spring and summer merchandise. Retailers are starting to roll out bright new apparel lines. The spring dress colors are in bloom, summer hats are finding their way into shopping carts, and it