For Patti Smith, rock and fashion have always been entwined, and style-world insiders embrace her as a kindred spirit.

In an excerpt from the On the Runway blog, Cathy Horyn shares the bold-faced names competing for CFDA awards.

A couple’s divorce arrangement makes dating and moving on an awkward challenge.

This week, answers to readers’ questions about stingy hosts, a boyfriend’s mother and other issues.

At 400 million members, Facebook might just replace restaurants as the go-to place for couples to cause a scene.

Sweat Shop, a tiny new cafe near a trendy stretch of Paris, is a fashion version of a cybercafe.

During the recent Fashion Week in Paris, stores, runways, magazines and the streets were chockablock with women wearing military garb.

In spring, a young man’s thoughts turn to linen, and he turns to Assembly New York.

One of the new values that technology has imposed on daily life is the idea that it is important to know exactly where you are at any given moment.

The industry is getting a heavy jerk toward modernity from Breguet, which is introducing a new balance spring design manufactured from silicon.

Since its founding in 2002, the watchmaker De Bethune has developed nine different calibers, including, most recently, one fitted with a silicon balance wheel - a first for a production movement.

In a small storefront window Copenhagen, amid a sea of Rolexes, Jaeger-LeCoultres and Patek Philippes, sits a sensible watch with a plain, white face that bears an ordinary Danish name, Ole Mathiesen.

In January, when BNB Concept, one of the leading makers of Swiss watch movements, filed for bankruptcy, the local court in Nyon, near Geneva, took just 20 minutes to order its liquidation.

The luxury watch business is committed to offering a deluxe, tactile shopping experience, but most brands have struggled with translating that to the Internet.

It has become a cliché to describe the watch business in America as a game of musical chairs, yet no other metaphor seems quite as relevant.

As the industry greets economic recovery with new models, Chinese buyers are getting the recognition they have earned.