PARIS — The thinning ranks of haute couture are bolstered this season by accessories. Jewelry houses on the Place Vendôme will have displays on Thursday to compliment high-fashion shows. The shoemaker Roger Vivier,longchamp taschen, which has long been associated with couture, has taken a new lease... 

New York Fashion Week ended its run at Bryant Park. They knocked the icicles off the fountain,AC MILAN Shirt 2012, put a tent over it and displayed their looks for fall inside. About 70 shows took place under the tents while 100 other designers showed in locations all over Manhattan. The audience of thousands... 

After finding a warehouse full of stolen shoes,Maglia Italia, police struck on a “Cinderella solution,” letting the public claim shoes that fit. SEOUL, South Korea — In South Korea, where people often remove their shoes before entering homes, restaurants or funeral parlors, it is a nagging problem:... 

SUBSCRIBERS to the May issues of In Style and All You, and to the June issue of Shape will find an unusual ad for Dr. Scholl’s for Her Open Shoe insoles: affixed to the heavy-stock paper will be an actual right insole. The magazine ad for Dr. Scholl’s insoles, with the sample included. The company... 

GIRLY-GIRL sneakerheads with a passion for sequins and fond memories of the playgrounds of their youth may want to check out a new line of Keds designed by Stacey Bendet, founder of Alice + Olivia. These stylish mash-ups, which Ms. Bendet sees as an alternative to the ubiquitous ballet flat worn with dresses,La... 

An employee straightened a display at the Crocs Store on Spring Street in SoHo. IN the 1980s, I ate many weighty meals at the SoHo barbecue restaurant Tennessee Mountain with my mother and grandmother, sometimes after shopping, sometimes after visiting my uncle, who lived in a loft a couple of blocks away. Donna... 

Photo: Getty Images We caught up with Twilight star Nikki Reed at the launch of Ubisoft’s Just Dance 3 in LA the other night, just one month before the release of Breaking Dawn stirs up Twilight fever—again. Reed, along with her fiancé Paul McDonald (whom you know from American Idol ) had no problem being... 

IF any shoe can be said to suffer from multiple-personality disorder, it is the Birkenstock. Elizabeth Lippman for The New York Times Karl Prouse/Catwalking/Getty Images RECRUITS More men are joining the party now, too. Dsquared2 riffed on the Birkenstock look in Milan. Tony Cenicola/The... 

,michael kors bags BETWEEN Chanel’s French Riviera resort show and Rodarte’s Godard-inspired T-shirts,michael kors Clutches, there’s a certain je ne sais quoi in the air. Now comes news that Opening Ceremony, which highlights the wares of a different country each year, has chosen France... 

,longchamp kaufen Photo: MyHabit In our November issue,Longchamp Footprint Stampa, we gave you a sneak peek at three new swimwear lines to look forward to next season. There are sporty looks coming from Alexander Wang, surf-inspired suits from Jason Wu and colorful abstract maillots from Chris Benz—and you can... 

OPENING Send shopping suggestions to Browsing@nytimes.com. ILDIKO GAL, the Hungarian shoe company, is opening its first store in the United States this week at 790 Madison Avenue (68th Street). The company, established in 1889, uses a scanner to measure each foot from all angles,Arsenal Short, including pressure... 

MADRID — The humble jute-soled shoe seemed headed for a museum shelf when Isabel Sauras and her husband took over the family espadrille business, Castañer, in the Catalonian town of Banyoles. It was 1959, and a wave of belated industrialization was sweeping agrarian Spain. Farmers had abandoned...