US department stores report weaker February sales
Major department store chains reported lower February same-store sales on Thursday as consumers spent less on home goods and women's apparel in the weaker U.S. economy.J.C. Penney Co...
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Witherspoon backs bracelet sales for UN women fund
Sales of a bracelet will go towards a U.N. fund to combat violence against women under a plan announced on Tuesday by the United Nations, the Avon cosmetics company and movie star Reese...
Pigs' feet and turtle blood fuel Japan beauty trend
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Cosmetic jobs jumped 457 percent in past 10 years
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L'Oreal in talks to take Armani stake: report
Italian designer Giorgio Armani's fashion group is in talks with L'Oreal about the French cosmetics company possibly taking a stake in it, Milano Finanza reported on Saturday.
Iraq's Kurds want Turk troops out, Turk products in
From Pop Kek cakes to Mio soap, Turkish products dominate shop shelves in Iraq's Kurdish north.
German chemical group Henkel to cut 3,000 jobs
German chemicals group Henkel said Wednesday February 21th it planned to cut 3,000 jobs and sell a stake in a US affiliate to cope with soaring raw material costs and stiff competition...
PPR 2007 net profit jumps, sees more gains in 2008
French retailer PPR said on Wednesday 2007 net profit rose 34.6 percent, helped by strong results at its luxury and African trading divisions and its acquisition of German sportswear...
Ambitious Chinese garden blossoms in California
By Mary Milliken SAN MARINO, California (Reuters Life!) - Beyond the Wall of the Colorful Clouds and around the Lake of Reflected Fragrance, the largest traditional Chinese garden in the...
"The Graduate" seduces again at Galliano's Dior
All that was missing was Anne Bancroft, smoky eyed and seductive, clutching a whisky tumbler.
Scientists find genetic keys to inherited hair loss
Researchers have found the genetic basis of two distinct forms of inherited hair loss, opening a broad path to treatments for thinning locks, according to a pair of studies released...
SKorean man gets merit after losing hair in army
A 26-year-old South Korean man has been granted a national merit entitling him to government subsidies after he went bald during his "stressful" army service, a news report said Sunday...
Gritty Chongqing hopes to shine under new leader
China's western metropolis of Chongqing is typically described as gritty and industrial. Its new Communist Party boss, Bo Xilai, is known as worldly and sophisticated.
Panic at the Disco sheds glam image, teenage angst
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Japanese women hairstyles track economy ups and downs
TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - Economic forecasters beware: Japanese women are cutting their hair again.
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