The L.A. outpost of this high-fashion emporium stocks the company’s private label infant clothing line, featuring classic baby looks such as footie pajamas with baby blue or pink stripes ($36) and a snow-white ribbed cotton sweater-and-hat set ($68). The children’s department also features less dressy — but not much cheaper — fare, including Levi’s Capital [...]

Fashion supremo Karen Millen described her surprise and joy at receiving an OBE from the Prince of Wales.
The designer whose stores have brought style and elegance to high streets across the country said it was “amazing” to be presented with the honour at a Buckingham Palace investiture ceremony.
Millen, who has sold her stake in the [...]

Industry followers say shoppers’ fear, which has been escalating since last July, could very well worsen what ails us.Such spending cuts could be “a self-fulfilling prophecy” and could hasten the economy’s slide, said Lynn Franco, director of The Conference Board Consumer Research Center.”I don’t think (the spending slump) has bottomed out,” said Candace Corlett, principal [...]