Fashion
Feminine meets futuristic at start of London Fashion Week (Reuters)
Reuters - London Fashion Week began on Sunday with a feminine flurry from some established British labels and a tongue-in-cheek take on the spring/summer 2009 season from some of the newer names. More »
Badgley Mischka Lightens Up (Fashion Wire Daily)
Fashion Wire Daily - Mark Badgley and James Mischka said that "the golden age of ocean travel" inspired their Spring 2009 collection, which they showed on Friday, Sept. 12, the final day of New York fashion week. More »
Fashion Week tries casual elegance for bad economy (AP)
AP - Despite all the harem pants and corset tops — or maybe because of them — the spring styles previewed at New York Fashion Week received a mostly warm reception given the elephant on the runway: the down economy. More »
Tame and Restrained, Baby Phat Celebrates a Decade (Fashion Wire Daily)
Fashion Wire Daily - Kimora Lee Simmons celebrated 10 years of Baby Phat at her show on Friday night, Sept. 12, with a seventies-inspired Spring 2009 collection of jersey dresses and flared jumpsuits that showed a more restrained side of Simmons. More »
LA prosecutor: Fashion designer was sex predator (AP)
AP - Fashion designer Anand Jon Alexander ditched his profession and turned into a serial predator, hunting for girls and young women to have humiliating and painful sex with him, a prosecutor said Friday during opening statements of his trial. More »
Serena Williams steps out for Simmons' runway show (AP)
AP - Serena Williams inspires her legion of fans as a world-class athlete, but for fashion inspiration, she turns to Kimora Lee Simmons. More »
LA prosecutor opens case against fashion designer (AP)
AP - Fashion designer Anand Jon Alexander ditched his profession and turned into a serial predator, hunting for girls and young women to have humiliating and painful sex with him, a prosecutor said Friday during opening statements of his trial. More »
Zac Posen: Clobber for Countesses (Fashion Wire Daily)
Fashion Wire Daily - Zac Posen took his inspiration from Spain this season, with a Spring 2009 collection that aped Alhambra designs and echoed Gaudi's opulence. More »
"Project Runway" final six make it work in NY (Reuters)
Reuters - The final six contestants on U.S. television's "Project Runway" showed their design collections on Friday, hoping to become the hit show's winner and someday join the professionals on the fashion show circuit. More »