PARIS (AFP) ― Whoever said economics is the dismal science never considered the prognostic powers of women’s taste in lingerie.To hear trend-spotters at the Salon International de la Lingerie tell it, a global swing towards a fuller feminine figure ― think the TV series “Mad Men”and 1950s pin-up queens ― is a harbinger of the waning of the Great Recession.“What were the 1950s? It was a post-war period,” explained Caroline le Grelle, a fashion consultant for Eurovet, organisers of the world’s mos

NICE, France (AFP) ― Thanks to an autograph hunter in Las Vegas who asked to borrow a pen, a French perfumer is poised to launch his-and-hers fragrances in memory of Michael Jackson.Inspired by plants that grow at the late King of Pop’s Neverland Ranch, “Jackson’s Tribute” for men and “Jackson’s Legend” for women, both eau de parfums, will be formally launched on March 7 in the United States.Julia

All too often, we look at our bodies as a white-elephant offering rather than as a treasured gift. We’d happily pass to someone else our varicose veins, oversize nose, frizzy hair, extra-wide feet. We’d swap in a minute our pokey metabolism, our allergies, our bellies that hurt when we eat dairy products.Yet whatever we might think, the body is, indeed, a gift. Hair and skin, blood and bones, croo