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Low-price fashion chain Forever 21, a one-time hot destination for teen shoppers that fell victim to its own rapid expansion and changing consumer tastes, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

It’s the season of cozy flannels, spooky festivals and pumpkin-flavored everything — well, whenever Mother Nature decides to drop the temperature below 80 degrees. In this edition of The KYW To-Do List, you'll find a wide variety of things to do in Philly and the burbs this weekend. Read the...

PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Used to be we went shopping at department stores for new clothes. Now, you can call some of those clothes "new to YOU." JCPenney and Macy's have just announced pilot programs with ThredUp , the world's largest fashion resale platform. They'll be selling secondhand...

PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — There's a saying if you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere. A 13-year-old from Lansdowne is hoping that will be true — the young entrepreneur's brand is on a billboard in Times Square and now, he's hoping to change the world. Trey Brown is one of the...

NEW YORK (AP) — Rihanna certified her status as a cultural fashion icon with her groundbreaking new deal with LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, the world's largest luxury group. The pop star, born Robyn Rihanna Fenty, announced Friday that she will debut a line called Fenty this spring through LVMH...

NEW YORK (AP) — Nike wants to meet your feet. The sneaker seller will add a foot-scanning tool on its app this summer that will measure the length, width and other dimensions of customers' feet after they point a smartphone camera to their toes. The app will then tell shoppers what size to buy each...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Museum authorities at the Auschwitz-Birkenau former Nazi German death camp in Poland have protested to an online vendor that was selling miniskirts, pillows and other items bearing photos of the camp, where around 1.1 million people were killed during World War II. On Twitter...

NEW YORK (AP) — Louis XIV and Oscar Wilde, meet Bjork and Lady Gaga. What quality do they share, across the centuries? An innate sense of camp — the aesthetic that's being celebrated in the new fashion mega-exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute, "Camp: Notes on Fashion."...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The wife of convicted drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman has launched an appeal to fashion designers to propose designs for a clothing line named after her husband. Emma Coronel posted a message on her Instagram account saying "I invite clothing designers who are starting out...

By Thomas Adamson, AP Fashion Writer PARIS (AP) — It was Karl Lagerfeld's final curtain — even though he was missing. Celebrities, supermodels and the fashion industry gathered at Chanel's catwalk show Tuesday to bid adieu to the iconic couturier, who died last month and did not want a public...