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Teens Need Kitchen Counter-Culture

Sarah Newman | Posted 11.12.2009 | Green


Sarah Newman

It's ironic that teens today are correctly pushing the social agenda in their schools to allow a diversity of identities to be expressed but are consuming foods that have little nutritional value and are uniform.

Donald Fisher Dead: Gap Co-Founder, 81, Dies

AP | SARAH SKIDMORE | Posted 09.27.2009 | Style


PORTLAND, Ore. — Donald G. Fisher, who co-founded apparel giant Gap Inc., has died at age 81 after a long battle with cancer. The company said ...

Vogue, Prada and the Fashion Revolution

Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 11.14.2009 | Style


Hoyt Hilsman

The global economic crisis has hastened the demise of the already toppling fashion establishment.

Casual Friday: Gap Dresses 1,200 Stock Traders In Jeans (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Posted 09.25.2009 | Style


Gap gave new meaning to 'Casual Friday' last week when it outfitted 1,200 New York Stock Exchange Traders in its new 1969 Premium Jeans. The jeans wer...

Third Time's The Charm For Gap's CFDA Collaboration

Michelle Madhok | Posted 07.18.2009 | Style


Michelle Madhok

These winners give GAP's staple khaki a much needed reinvention.

Tax Refunds Send False Recovery Signal

24/7 Wall Street | Posted 05.15.2009 | Business


A taxpayer gets a refund check under the new stimulus program and then spends most of the money. That trend may help retail sales for the current quar...

Furlough Arnold

Dennis Danziger | Posted 03.19.2009 | Politics


Dennis Danziger

When non-English speaking people who risked arrest to work at below minimum-wage jobs in strawberry fields decide that California's economy sucks so badly they'd rather leave, you know it's bad.

Bridging the 77 Day Chasm

Karen Talavera | Posted 12.14.2008 | Politics


Karen Talavera

In ordinary times those seventy-seven days wouldn't seem like much. In the past they've not been pivotal. Yet these are anything but ordinary times.

Crib Notes

Roseanne Colletti | Posted 11.23.2008 | Living


Roseanne Colletti

"When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall." This venerable children's nursery rhyme takes on a frightening new significance amid the rash of crib recalls. What's going on in "Babyland"?

Gap boosts 1Q profit on tight cost management

AP | MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 05.30.2008 | Business


SAN FRANCISCO — Clothing retailer Gap Inc. boosted its first-quarter profit by 40 percent despite a persistent sales slump that seems likely to ...

Old Navy Needs Fashion Infusion

Portfolio | Liz Gunnison | Posted 04.19.2008 | Business


Old Navy, once the powerhouse in the Gap's stable of stores, has struggled mightily in recent years. On Thursday, the Gap said sales at Old Navy store...

More Midnight Madness! Stores Hype "Black Friday"

AP | RACHEL KONRAD | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


While many Americans sleep off the effects of oversize turkey dinners, Glenn Murphy will mingle with holiday hordes at an outlet mall. Murphy, chairma...

Gap Plans "Sweatshop Free" Labels After Child Labor Uproad

The Observer (U.K.) | Dan McDougall | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


In what would be the biggest commitment to ending child labour ever undertaken by a major retailer, Gap Inc is drawing up plans to label its products ...

Third Death In A Year At India Factory That Supplies Gap

The Guardian (U.K.) | Karen McVeigh | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

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The clothing giant Gap has ordered one of its overseas suppliers to overhaul its practices after a garment worker in Bangalore, India, collapsed and l...