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Fashion Front-and-Center at "My One and Only" Premiere (Fashion Wire Daily)
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:35:00 GMT

Fashion Wire Daily - What brings fashion designers running? If you're in New York City on a hot summer night, it is Renee Zellweger, who stars in the new film "My One and Only." The premiere of that Fifties-era comedy drew a who's who of well-known couturiers on Tuesday, Aug. 18.

Tom Ford's "Single Man" vies for Queer Lion (Reuters)
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:54:40 GMT

Reuters - "A Single Man," the directorial debut of fashion designer Tom Ford, will head a record 14 films in the third edition of the Queer Lion awards at the Venice Film Festival.

Wintour's counterpart at Vogue is quiet powerhouse (AP)
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:36:15 GMT

AP - No doubt about it, Anna Wintour is the brains behind Vogue. Nothing brings that into clearer focus than the new documentary "The September Issue."

Bomb scare drives Gaultier onto seafront in bathrobe (AFP)
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:14:01 GMT

AFP - Fashion designer Jean-Paul Gaultier, clad only in a white dressing gown, was among 158 staff and guests forced to evacuate a luxury French hotel on Tuesday following a bomb threat.

LA rolls out the red carpet for "Project Runway" (Reuters)
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:55:29 GMT

Reuters - Reality fashion show "Project Runway" returns to television this Thursday after 10-month hiatus, hoping to "make it work" on a new channel and in a new city, Los Angeles, that is ripe with red carpet opportunities.

New network, new season: `Project Runway' returns (AP)
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:00:21 GMT

AP - Fashion changes with the seasons, and so does "Project Runway."

'Mad Men' returns, fit for runway, retail (AP)
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:07:52 GMT

AP - Is it any surprise AMC's "Mad Men" has sparked a hunger for 1960s sheaths and suits, with fans across the country creating sleek avatars of themselves from MadMenYourself.com?

Completely Cool at the "Inglourious Basterds" Premiere (Fashion Wire Daily)
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:07:00 GMT

Fashion Wire Daily - They were the cool couple in black, he in a linen suit and she in a fabulous, form-fitting strapless leather dress. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie stopped traffic on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles on Monday, Aug. 10, as they joined Quentin Tarantino at the premiere of "Inglourious Basterds."

Second Yves Saint Laurent art sale set for November (Reuters)
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:47:16 GMT

Reuters - A second auction of art works once belonging to Yves Saint Laurent will be held in November after the main part of the late designer's huge collection was sold earlier this year, auctioneers Christie's said on Monday.

Car, Leger painting up for grabs at second YSL auction (AFP)
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:51:59 GMT

AFP - A Fernand Leger painting and Yves Saint Laurent's own Mercedes Benz and Hermes luggage are to go on sale in November in a second smaller auction of the YSL-Pierre Berge collection, one of the world's great private collections.

Second Saint Laurent art sale set for November (Reuters)
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:02:46 GMT

Reuters - A second auction of art works once belonging to Yves Saint Laurent will be held in November after the main part of the late designer's huge collection was sold earlier this year, auctioneers Christie's said on Monday.

President and first lady make best dressed list (AP)
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:12:25 GMT

AP - Barack and Michelle Obama are edging out Hollywood stars on Vanity Fair's International Best-Dressed List.

Designer GF Ferre to dress Lazio soccer team (Reuters)
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:02:16 GMT

Reuters - Italian fashion house Gianfranco Ferre's young label will dress the Rome-based S.S. Lazio soccer team for official off-field events during the 2009/2010 season, the designer said in a statement. The formal GF Ferre outfit will be made up of a midnight blue suit in light wool, with matching tie, white cotton satin shirt and a single-breasted coat. The emblem is a GF Ferre logo jacket pin.

Reviving Afghan fashion, one stitch at a time (Reuters)
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 04:22:01 GMT

Reuters - Tweaking folds of black and gold silk, Zolaykha Sherzad frowns. Reinventing a country known for burqa-clad women as a source of high-end fashion means getting every stitch right and something is not perfect with a dress.

Pioneering black model Naomi Sims dies, aged 61: reports (AFP)
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:46:28 GMT

AFP - Naomi Sims, a black model who opened the white-dominated fashion industry to African Americans in the 1960s, has died, reports said Tuesday. She was 61.

New Michael Moore film in Venice film fest line-up (AFP)
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:39:08 GMT

AFP - Michael Moore's film on the financial crisis and the directorial debut of US fashion designer Tom Ford will compete for the Golden Lion award at this year's Venice film festival, organisers said Thursday.

Japan's top model "Ebi-chan" eyes global catwalk (Reuters)
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 06:31:59 GMT

Reuters - Top Japanese model Yuri Ebihara has made her mark in Asia but now she wants to take her place on the global catwalk alongside the world's supermodels.

Ferragamo menswear designer takes on womenswear (Reuters)
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:40:38 GMT

Reuters - Italian fashion house Salvatore Ferragamo has said its menswear designer Massimiliano Giornetti will also take on women's ready-to-wear.

Lacroix joins Borletti to bid for own fashion house (Reuters)
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:51:30 GMT

Reuters - The administrator for cash-strapped fashion house Christian Lacroix called "serious" a joint bid by the designer himself and Italy's Borletti and Milan's La Rinascente department stores.

Kiefer Sutherland gets NYC assault charge dropped (AP)
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:10:14 GMT

AP - Kiefer Sutherland's legal troubles for allegedly head-butting a fashion designer in a New York City nightclub are over.