Spark Notes is a recurring series about the lightbulb moments in sexual development. For homosexuals of my generation, certain phrases held very specific but not exactly standard meanings. Every ’80s ...

Finding work as a model is tough. If you learn anything from America’s Top Model, you know that competition is fierce, nobody is there to make friends, and there’s a lot of crying. But now, models are ...

Smith & Hawken, the upscale gardener’s catalog, is branching into clothing with a new catalog of ready-to-wear items and is returning to its roots by adding a new garden tools-only specialty catalog.

It has been 62 years since Appleseed’s was founded in Beverly, and about 12 years since the women’s clothing retailer closed 17 retail stores – including a successful one in Cohasset – and became ...

WHY WOULD a clothing store try to sell clothes by showing pictures of naked people? The new Abercrombie & Fitch quarterly publication -- available at A&F stores for $6 if you have an I.D. that proves ...

Fashion might be a magic show, but don't confuse the model with the magician. That role belongs to the photographer, the art director, the person who lays the graphics down and around the beautiful ...

Lots of gay guys will tell you that the moment they knew they were gay was when they lingered in the underwear aisle of a department store as a kid, ogling the torsos on the packaging. Another version ...