Fashion News

New York - The fantasy film "City of Ember" lit up New York City on Tuesday night, as the movie's veteran stars Bill Murray, Tim Robbins and Martin Landau joined youngsters Saoirse Ronan and Harry Treadaway and director Gil Kenan at the glittery screening.

DHAKA (Reuters Life!) - "Made in Bangladesh" is set for a makeover after the Asian nation's key apparel sector signed up a London fashion design school to help it appeal to more trendy and quality-conscious buyers.

Paris - The very term intellectual fashion conjures up images of dark, lumpy and staid clothes, which is the exact opposite to what we got at the tour de force Miu Miu collection for spring 2009 Sunday in Paris. This was intellectual fashion of the highest order, yet the result was an exhilarating display of style, graphic punch and aesthetic panache.

Paris - Leave it to Marc Jacobs to inject the right dose of energy, sexual explicitness and edgy fashion that Paris fashion season desperately needed this season in his spring 2009 collection for Louis Vuitton.

New York - The boys from "Body of Lies" met up on Sunday night in New York to premiere their new action flick, and the three seemed to have been dressed by the same stylist.

Los Angeles (E! Online) - • Heidi Klum's latest runway project involves some seriously scantily clad catwalkers: The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show features the likes of Klum, Alessandra Ambrosia, Selita Ebanks, Doutzen Kroes, Adriana Lima, Marisa Miller and Miranda Kerr "in this holiday infused lingerie runway show" taking place at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach and airing Dec. 3. Bells won't be the only thing jingling.

PARIS - Paris Fashion Week ended on Sunday, capping a season which saw designers play it safe to coax customers into stores despite the global financial crisis.

Paris - It's amusing that in a moment when American economic policies are being questioned in the midst of the current financial crisis that France's most illustrious luxury label, Hermes, should dedicate its entire collection to the United States' quirkiest contribution to modern entertainment, the cowboy movie.

New York - Clint Eastwood is no fool. He knew that the moment he cast Angelina Jolie as the woman to play the single mother of a kidnapped child in his new fact-based period drama "Changeling" that she would bring more than just her acting talents to the project. She and partner Brad Pitt are, after all, the most famous celebrity pair on the planet, so where Angelina and Brad go, publicity follows.

Paris - The house of Valentino has dropped Alessandra Facchinetti as its designer and replaced her with two former assistants of the founder of the label, Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli.

Paris - We discovered the ideal cure for the current financial blues; attending Chanel's rock-n-roll aristocrat runway show, Friday, Oct. 3, in Paris.

Paris - The mood got very somber and rather solemn Thursday, Oct. 2, when viewing the spring 2009 collection of Yves Saint Laurent, the first women's show presented by the house since the death of its founder.

Paris - One fashion house that seems poised to ride out the current financial crisis is surely Stella McCartney, the London-based designer who staged a wittily tailored spring 2009 collection in Paris Thursday, Oct. 2, that was all about women raiding their boyfriends' wardrobe for clothes and inspiration.

MILAN (Reuters) - Italian designer Alessandra Facchinetti said she was bitter to be leaving the Valentino fashion house after learning from media reports that the company was replacing her, Italian newspapers said on Sunday.

Paris - We got a major shift in paradigm and aesthetics at Dries Van Noten, the Belgium print master, ethnic driven and gardening obsessed designer who went all modern and chic in his spring 2009 collection staged Wednesday in Paris.

PARIS (Reuters) - The new Hermes woman is a 21st century Western film heroine.

Paris - Things went a little inside out at Balenciaga in Saint Germain on Tuesday, Sept. 30, where the interior structures from the time honoured metier of haute couture were re-thought to make the latest, exciting futurist statement by the house's designer Nicolas Ghesquiere.

PARIS - Italian fashion house Valentino said on Saturday it had named its in-house accessories designers as joint creative directors of the brand. Outgoing designer Alessandra Facchinetti said she learned about her dismissal from press reports.

Paris - Fashion's cleverest mind, Karl Lagerfeld, got a little Sci Fi this season in his spring 2009 collection shown Wednesday, Oct. 1, in Paris, but with his own classic German Expression spin and in the most courtly of style protocol.

Paris - No self-respecting gal would ever need a backstage pass if she donned most of the looks in the Christian Dior spring 2009 collection so naughtily chic and suggestively racy were the clothes in the latest collection by John Galliano presented Monday, Sept. 29.

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. - Hip-Hop pioneer and designer Russell Simmons is bringing a little sophistication to the urban over 25 crowd.

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters Life!) - Tired of running out of batteries and having to find a socket to charge your cell phone or iPod? An Argentine fashion designer may have the answer: a timeless jacket with a built-in solar panel.

PARIS - Paris designers whipped up a rainbow burst of colors on Wednesday as an antidote to the economic blues plaguing the luxury industry.

NEW YORK - A New York judge has bid "auf Wiedersehen" to fashion industry veterans who claimed Heidi Klum and others ripped off their idea for television's "Project Runway."

LONDON (Reuters) - Hardy Amies, the fashion house that dressed Britain's Queen Elizabeth for more than 30 years, plans to file for administration after failing to find new sources of funding, though it added that talks continue.

PARIS (Reuters) - France's ready-to-wear spring and summer shows began in earnest on Monday with Christian Dior's collection, as the world of fashion flew in the face of an increasingly ominous world environment.

MUMBAI (Reuters Life!) - The big mustache, silk shirt and gold accessories-look that survived for decades is now being replaced by a haute couture hero: India's men are taking their fashion cues from the global scene.

Borat actor crashes Agatha's party at fashion show

MILAN (Reuters) - Actor Sacha Baron Cohen, best known for his eccentric character Borat, burst onto the catwalk at Agatha Ruiz de la Prada's show in Milan on Friday, bringing the playful show to a halt as security guards stepped in. Baron Cohen is in Milan making a new film about fashion centered on his character Bruno, a flamboyant Austrian fashionista.

Los Angeles (E! Online) - As Heidi Klum says, in the world of fashion one day you're in, the next you're out. Lifetime is learning that lesson the hard way.