As they did with the cheap plastic furniture sold at an Ikea near you, Scandinavians are way ahead of us in their taste for jeans, and are paying far less for them, too.

One label with street-fashion credibility is pushing its commodity of coolness a new level.

Since it's invention in the early 70s, the digital watch has been treated more as a novelty then a serious accessory. But some of the latest versions, like ones produced by Chanel and Penguin, are replacing upgrading the expected rubber and plastic, to gold, silver and crystal.

I’m all for making the formerly inaccessible available to all, but this just seems like a poor match.

Fashion, among other things, is suppose to be fresh and exciting, and in maybe only idealistically, gives people a chance to reinvent themselves.

I’m all for the fun of teenage fashion, especially when it’s at a price that even I could save up my milk money to afford, and I really do love the tongue-in-cheek humor that Rich and co-designer Traver Rains bring to the fashion community, but I hope they leave Paris Hilton out of this one.

Some high end designers are pushing for copyright protection for fashion design similar to the protection given to other forms of artistic expression, like books and music.

Mischa Barton's latest advertising campaign for Keds has a few eyes rolling - again.

A recent article in Women’s Wear Daily reported on a shopping trend amongst teenagers in Singapore. Known simply as “sprees,” these mass orders from online retailers are just the latest evidence of the westernizing and globalization of seemingly not-so-foreign-now markets markets.

Is the image of what some see as one of America's worst gifts to the modern world really what anyone needs to make a fashion statement?

Yeah, it's true that "Sex And the City" hammered home the luxury labels, bringing them to an audience hungry big-city fashion, but there’s a big difference between clever product placement or brand worship, and actually “vulgarizing” something.

Adrants flatly stated that, "that boxy SUV is so hip, it's spawned a fashion label," but it seems to me more like the overzealous brainchild of brand planning and developing.

Knock-offs suck, but screwing over working artists sucks even more.

For someone who spent so much time scowling at the camera, I find the idea of her as model of the high-end products she now covets as kind of ironic.

For once, a handbag advertisement is sort of relatable, even if it’s starring a chicken.