American teen girls feel pressure to be thin (Reuters)

Reuters – Almost nine in 10 American teenage girls say they feel pressured by the fashion and media industries to be skinny and that an unrealistic, unattainable image of beauty has been created, a poll showed on Monday.

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Lady Gaga leads Grammys’ galactic fashion parade (AP)

Lady Gaga arrives at the Grammy Awards on Sunday, Jan. 31, 2010, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)AP – All eyes on the red carpet at Sunday’s Grammy Awards went straight to Lady Gaga and her solar-system gown that was totally out of this world.


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NJ woman fined for ‘Real Housewives’ hair pull (AP)

AP – The daughter of a “Real Housewives of New Jersey” reality show star has been found guilty of simple assault for pulling another cast member’s hair during a fight at a fashion show.

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Designer Anand Jon faces new sex charges in NYC (AP)

FILE- In this Nov. 13, 2008 file photo, fashion designer Anand Jon Alexander appears at his sexual assault trial in Los Angeles. Alexander, who is already serving 59 years to life in prison for sexually assaulting women he baited with the promise of modeling work in Los Angeles, has pleaded not guilty Friday, Jan. 29, 2010 in a Manhattan court to rape and other charges dating to 2002. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)AP – Fallen fashion designer Anand Jon Alexander used drugs, threats and the lure of modeling jobs as he conducted a campaign of sexual molestation involving a dozen women, prosecutors said Friday in a case that echoes charges that sent him to prison in California.


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Valentino’s Eco Modernism (Fashion Wire Daily)

FWD210  Model walks the runway at the Valentino Spring 2010 haute couture show in Paris on Wednesday, January 27, 2010.(Fashion Wire Daily/Gruber)Fashion Wire Daily – Valentino offered a large dollop of eco modernist fashion in the house’s Spring 2010 haute couture collection, presented before huge images of swaying digital trees projected on the walls of the medieval convent hospital in Paris where the show was staged Wednesday, Jan. 27.


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Mariachi cries at Gaultier conclude haute couture (AP)

French actress Arielle Dombasle presents a creation by French designer Jean-Paul Gaultier as part of his Haute Couture Spring Summer 2010 fashion collection in Paris, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)AP – Spring-summer 2010 haute couture displays ended Wednesday with a piercing mariachi cry at Jean Paul Gaultier’s raucous south-of-the-border-themed show, a neon paradise of receding hemlines at Valentino and endless sweet and sexy silk gowns from red-carpet-favorite Elie Saab.


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Dazzling haute couture rises from Lebanon’s ruins (Reuters)

A model presents a creation by Lebanese designer Zuhair Murad as part of his Couture Spring Summer 2010 fashion show in Paris January 26, 2010. REUTERS/Charles PlatiauReuters – Lebanon’s new star couturiers face the typical problems of people working in fashion: snarled deliveries, canceled trips, delayed fittings.


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Jean Paul Gaultier: Ava Gardner Avatar (Fashion Wire Daily)

FWD101  Model walks the runway at the Jean Paul Gaultier Spring 2010 haute couture show in Paris on Wednesday, January 27, 2010.(Fashion Wire Daily/Gruber)Fashion Wire Daily – When they make the sequel to “Avatar” and want to add a delicious fashion quotient, the producers need to do two simple things: Use the entirety of the epochal Jean Paul Gaultier haute couture show, and resurrect Ava Gardner to play the femme fatale leading role.


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Mel Gibson: Back from the "Edge of Darkness" (Fashion Wire Daily)

FWD103 Oksana Grigorieva and Mel Gibson arrive at the film premiere of Fashion Wire Daily – Looking at Mel Gibson as he walked the red carpet at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on Tuesday, Jan. 26, at the premiere of his new thriller “Edge of Darkness,” one thing was obvious. He’s not a kid anymore. With his lined visage and thinning hair, this is the older, hopefully wiser Gibson, the 54-year-old man who was once the top box office draw in Tinseltown.


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Couture not a crime at Singapore prison (Reuters)

Reuters – Fashion police on the prowl for the latest trends were held captive at a Singapore prison recently when it housed couture instead of inmates.

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