A video ad from Nike Japan against bullying and racism that features biracial athletes and other minorities, such as those of Korean descent, has prompted a sharp online response including calls to boycott the company.

Sociolla offers an online-offline shopping experience at its stores by connecting them with e-commerce platform Sociolla and the SOCO app.

British department store group Debenhams is set to close all its UK shops after 242 years in business, putting 12,000 jobs at risk in the country's second major corporate failure in as many days.

More than a million French cyclists have used a 50 euro ($60) subsidy to get their old bikes repaired as part of measures to fight the coronavirus and now the government wants more people to start riding them.

The 2020 prize for Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year went to an obvious choice: pandemic.

This year, visitors must enjoy the sights and smells of the traditional Christmas market in Germany's Landshut from inside their cars due to precautions to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

The penultimate event of the 2021 Jakarta Fashion Week will encourage fashion-concerned people to take a contemplative moment.

Nguyen Duc Loc, a 28-year-old entrepreneur, together with his 11-strong production team in Hanoi, is convinced the attire of their ancestors can make a return to modern-day living.

Concern is growing over the mushrooming trend of getting a “semi-permanent tattoo”. However, the term “semi-permanent” has been called into question.

A Malaysian family have cooked up a tasty solution to their economic woes during the pandemic by opening a backyard pizzeria that has proved a hit in their sleepy village.

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced the beauty industry to rethink its operations, including the future of in-store product sampling.

Gibraltar requires minimum bureaucracy to get married and there are no virus border restrictions, which has helped turn it into a wedding hotspot during the pandemic.

Top batik houses as well as LaSalle fashion students have taken on the challenge of bringing contemporary reimaginings of Indonesia's traditional clothing and textiles to the all-digital runway shows at JFW 2021.

Americans awoke on Thursday to celebrate a Thanksgiving Day transformed by the coronavirus pandemic, with the Macy's parade limited to a television-only event and many families resigned to meeting on video for turkey dinner.

The owner of a Frankfurt restaurant is staging a protest against the coronavirus lockdown in Germany by filling his tables with a hundred stuffed toy pandas, in a play on the word "pandemic".

Japanese trend-setters can now protect against the coronavirus in luxurious style with opulent masks adorned with diamonds and pearls for a cool million yen ($9,600) each.

It has something for everyone, including the Armys and Blinks.

While the Black Lives Matter movement fuels debate and change in the fashion worlds of the United States and parts of Europe, industry figures say Asia's beauty and body expectations remain dominated by an ideal that is pale, thin, and unrepresentative of the region.

Designer masks may not be just a passing trend, even after we finally see the end to the pandemic.

As jewelry sales get a pre-Christmas boost, consumers were warned that major brands are still not doing enough to combat human rights and environmental abuses in their gold and diamond supply chains.

Hong Kong will close bars, nightclubs and other entertainment venues for the third time this year, as authorities scramble to tackle a renewed rise in coronavirus cases.

Upgrading your wardrobe with next year’s fashion trends is only a click away as the long-awaited JFW 2021 goes fully virtual on multiple platforms.

The show has selected 16 finalists from all over Indonesia who joined the online audition in August.

On a darkened residential street in Paris, a gate left partly open signals the entrance to an abandoned train tunnel -- and an illegal rave party for 300 people looking for an escape from France's COVID-19 lockdown.

British Airways put crockery, slippers and trolleys from its now retired jumbo jets up for sale on Monday, seeking to shift retired stock and keep its brand on customers' minds at a time when very few people are traveling.

An audio tour of the Georgian capital is organized by a local LGBT+ group to shine a light on the lives of transgender men and women in the socially conservative Caucasian nation.

Afro-Brazilian models Shirley Pitta and Gloria Maria Fonseca Siqueira had dreamed of the catwalk since they were girls, but in a Brazilian fashion world much whiter than the country itself, it remained a far-away fantasy until recently.

A 45.5-meter deep diving pool with artificial underwater caves and Mayan ruins, the world's deepest such structure, opened near Warsaw this weekend.

Beppe Modenese, who helped catapult Italy to the top of world fashion and who was nicknamed its "prime minister", has died.

Gucci is revisiting 1960s handbags and other classics in its latest collection, mixing them with up-to-the-minute sneakers and logoed skateboards, as it seeks to reach a wider audience and reverse a fall in sales after years of stellar growth.