The fields of fashion and design are closely related in terms of creativity, experimentation and style. Very often they ...

Seeing this demand, a young German-Jewish immigrant named Levi Strauss teamed up with tailor Jacob Davis in 1873 to create the first denim work pants. They used tough canvas fabric reinforced with ...

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is visibly dismayed. Within seconds of arriving at the Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space on West 52nd Street, he pronounces the quiet, clean, but definitely small ground-level ...

We do know that items that started with a “5” were the top-of-the-line. Jacob Davis was a tailor from Nevada who came up with the idea of using copper rivets to secure pockets and reinforce ...

The jeans we know today—rugged, riveted, rendered in inky-blue cotton—were invented way back in the late 1800s in Reno, Nevada by a Latvian immigrant and tailor by the name of Jacob Davis.

Correction: The schedule of pay for Hubert Davis' base salary was misstated in the story. Hubert Davis doesn't appear to be leaving Chapel Hill anytime soon. The fourth-year North Carolina men's ...

Anthony Davis is in a rare and nearly impossible position. If almost any team acquired him, he would arrive in his new city with extreme fanfare. The New Orleans Pelicans treated him as a savior.