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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Reuters – Lebanon’s new star couturiers face the typical problems of people working in fashion: snarled deliveries, canceled trips, delayed fittings.
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.
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.
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.
