Detractors of fashion often complain about the convention of the non-smiling model and the industry's love of a surly pout has even been lambasted in films such as Zoolander. Catwalks have long been a ...

Have you ever wondered why fashion models always look so miserable? They wear the world’s most beautiful and expensive clothes yet their faces are the picture of blank boredom. Fashion shows are one ...

For many people, one of the unspoken rules for being cool is maintaining an emotionally inexpressive attitude. This message is reinforced through advertisements where fashion models rarely smile and ...

PARIS—Issey Miyake cast a few minutes of sunshine over a grey Paris sky on Friday with a fall-winter 2013-14 show brimming with colour. Checkered patterns added to the fun, and it was invigorating to ...

It’s almost fashion Week season, with events in London, New York and Paris all coming up, and I have one pretty sure prediction: the models won’t be smiling. In spite of some hasty claims that happy ...