Stephanie Izard looks like the girl next door, all T-shirt and curly pony tail. Until she wipes the sweat from her forehead with the back of her hand. And then you see it.The fish tattoo.“Cooking is an art and tattoos are another form of art,’’ says the chef-owner of Chicago’s acclaimed Girl and the Goat restaurant, showing off the delicate drawing on the inside of her wrist. Roll up her pants and a pea tendril struggles up her calf, a tiny plant becoming strong. A bright green gecko sits on one

NEW YORK (AP) ― Kids can video chat with Santa, follow him on Twitter or enlist NORAD to track his every move online. And yet in many ways, technology may be making it harder for parents to keep their children believing in the jolly old elf.At nearly every turn, the Internet threatens to blow the fat man’s cover.Practically any schoolchild can type “Is Santa real?’’ into Google. And just a few clicks can bring youngsters to websites that sell customized letters from the North Pole or offer advic

NEW YORK (AP) ― It Is not just the push-up bras or feathered wings that give some top Victoria’s Secret models their sexy swagger: It Is their off-the-catwalk lives as mothers that give them their confidence and signature curves, they say.Miranda Kerr, Doutzen Kroes and Alessandra Ambrosio have been crowned VS Angels, so they are among the half-dozen models to get the best outfits and most face time during the lingerie giant’s televised annual fashion show, which was scheduled to air Tuesday nig

LYON, France (AFP) ― Heavy rolls of silk printed with a tiny stirrup motif line up on a factory floor near Lyon, waiting to be rolled, beaten and brushed to perfection, before they are cut into Hermes neckties.Based outside the eastern French city, silk “finisher” Proverbio is one of a handful of survivors of a once-flourishing industry, which from farm to weaver to trader employed many thousands at its height in the 19th century.Today the thread comes from China or Brazil, but Lyon still counts

MIAMI ― Baby boomer women might not want to wear their daughters’ jeans and men may refuse to don muscle shirts, but the generation that brought us tie-dye still wants to remain fashionable and hip well into middle age.How to monetize that desire is both a marketer’s conundrum and dream.“Even with mature figures, boomers want to have fashionable options,” says Roseanne Morrison, fashion director for The Doneger Group, an industry consultant. “That doesn’t stop just because you hit a certain age.