Reuters – Madonna has been hit with a lawsuit over her new “Material Girl” fashion line for teenagers by a California clothing company that says it has been using the name since 1997.

AP – As cliches go, designer Prabal Gurung is the first to say he’s living the American dream: Kid from Nepal is now dressing first lady Michelle Obama on a regular basis.

AP – Clothes are a key part of weddings — and, it turns out, the marriage of art and commerce.

AP – A union representing 2,200 stagehands is threatening to put on a show of its own when Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week opens at Lincoln Center next month.

Fashion Wire Daily – Motherhood was on everyone’s mind on Monday, Aug. 17, at the Arclight Theatre in Hollywood, where Jennifer Aniston introduced her latest romantic comedy “The Switch” to the world. The film is all about a single, 40-year-old woman who decides to use artificial insemination in order to have a child.

AP – Stores and manufacturers always try to court kids during the all-important back-to-school season, but now that engagement means interactivity, not a flier with coupons or a catalog full of smiling children clutching notebooks.

AP – You didn’t get your cocktail poured by guest bartenders Mary-Kate or Ashley Olsen at the first Fashion’s Night Out? This year, you could try tailgating with Tommy Hilfiger.

AFP – South Korean fashion designer Andre Kim has died at the age of 75, his son said Friday.

Reuters – New York has reclaimed the title of the world’s top fashion capital from Milan but the annual poll suggested the top five fashion cities are seeing competition from Asia and Australia.

Reuters – Coveted invitations to New York’s Fashion Week will be a little easier to snag next month, with the unveiling of a public runway show designed to inspire shoppers to add to their wardrobes for fall and winter.

Fashion Wire Daily – The journey of discovery that is “Eat Pray Love” finally ended at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York on Tuesday, Aug. 10, as the film of the best-selling novel premiered.

AP – Naomi Campbell’s swagger is what powers her runway strut, and it’s unlikely another few uncomfortable days of attention over her testimony in the Charles Taylor war-crimes trial will change that.

AP – The model is in black, prone and dirty on jagged rocks, netting draped around her legs like a dead sea creature.

AP – Naomi Campbell’s former agent fended off defense accusations Tuesday that she lied to the war crimes court to further her own lawsuit against Campbell, insisting the model knew she was receiving diamonds from Charles Taylor.

AP – Naomi Campbell’s former agent is denying fabricating her testimony that the fashion model acknowledged receiving diamonds from former Liberian President Charles Taylor, who is on trial for war crimes.

AP – Naomi Campbell flirted with Liberia’s former president across the dinner table at Nelson Mandela’s presidential mansion in 1997 and boasted the following morning that Charles Taylor had given her a huge diamond during the night, Mia Farrow and another witness testified at Taylor’s war crimes trial Monday.

AP – Naomi Campbell told Mia Farrow that she received a “huge diamond” from the former president of Liberia, the actress said from the witness stand Monday, contradicting the model’s testimony that she didn’t know the value of the gift from accused war criminal Charles Taylor.

AP – Naomi Campbell’s former business agent has told a war crimes court the fashion model flirted with former Liberian President Charles Taylor at a 1997 dinner and he arranged to send her a gift of uncut diamonds.

AP – Mia Farrow testified Monday that model Naomi Campbell told her she had been sent a “huge diamond” by former Liberian President Charles Taylor, directly contradicting Campbell’s evidence last week at Taylor’s war crimes trial.

AP – American actress Mia Farrow becomes the latest celebrity to testify at Charles Taylor’s war crimes trial, following British fashion model Naomi Campbell last week.

The Newsroom – Print may be dying, but that doesn’t mean that the Magazine Hall of Fame isn’t inducting new, deserving figureheads into its clan before the industry goes entirely kaput. And, who better than the Prada-clad, notoriously diabolical Vogue editor-in-chief, recognizable around the world thanks to her signature cropped bob and colossal sunglasses?

AFP – Chinese fashion designer Kinghero launched on Friday its first international listing of shares in Frankfurt, a European stock market that is actively courting companies from the far East.

Fashion Wire Daily – Martha Davis may not yet be a household name when it comes to shoe design. But in the world of industrial design, her specialty of 20 years, she made her mark in a way that has since affected millions of women: dial pack birth control packaging for Johnson & Johnson. Now she hopes to change the lives of millions more, but this time, with her shoes.

AP – Fashion icon Naomi Campbell countered allegations that former Liberian ruler Charles Taylor gave her a fistful of diamonds as a flirtatious gift, telling his war crimes trial Thursday that a pouch of “very small, dirty-looking stones” was delivered to her room in the dark of night.

AP – Naomi Campbell testified before a war crimes tribunal Thursday that she had received some “dirty-looking stones” after a 1997 dinner party with former Liberian ruler Charles Taylor. Still, the supermodel said she didn’t know if the stones were actually diamonds or if the gift came from Taylor.

AP – Naomi Campbell testified before the war crimes tribunal Thursday, confirming that she had received some “dirty-looking stones” after a dinner with former Liberian ruler Charles Taylor but stopping short of saying they were diamonds or that she was given the gift by Taylor himself.

AP – Model Naomi Campbell testified at the war crimes trial of former Liberian ruler Charles Taylor on Thursday that she received a gift of “dirty-looking stones” after attending a dinner with him — but stopped short of saying they were diamonds or that she was given them by Taylor himself.

AP – Model Naomi Campbell has testified at the war crimes trial of former Liberian ruler Charles Taylor that she received “dirty rocks.”

AP – Having lost her battle to avoid testifying, British fashion model Naomi Campbell is due to give evidence at the war crimes trial of former Liberian ruler Charles Taylor on Thursday.

AP – Judges rejected a last-minute protest from former Liberian ruler Charles Taylor, clearing the way for British fashion model Naomi Campbell to testify at his war crimes trial on Thursday.

Fashion Wire Daily – It was a red carpet packed with happy couples at the premiere of “The Other Guys” on Monday, Aug. 2; everyone, it seemed, was grinning, and that was before they even saw the crack-up cop-buddy comedy that stars Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg.

AP – First lady Michelle Obama is becoming a fixture on the Vanity Fair International Best-Dressed List — but it’s soccer star David Beckham who earned a spot in the hall of fame.

AP – War crimes judges on Tuesday ordered special security measures for fashion model Naomi Campbell when she testifies at the trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor, barring photographers from catching her entering or leaving the courtroom.

AP – The defense in the war crimes trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor is seeking to postpone testimony this week by supermodel Naomi Campbell, a motion released Monday shows.

AP – The defense in the war crimes trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor is seeking to postpone testimony by fashion model Naomi Campbell.

Reuters – The Material Girl is launching a new clothing line for juniors that will hit stores in the U.S. next week, just in time for back-to-school shopping.

AP – William Rast, the fashion line by Justin Timberlake and his childhood friend Trace Ayala, has a new partner: Target.

Fashion Wire Daily – In a technology-obsessed world, where new gadgets top everyone’s holiday gift wish-lists, it’s up to clothing retailers to come up with new ways to entice customers to give wearable items as gifts. Gone are the days when a new pair of socks or pajamas can hold their own against a video game console or smartphone, which is something that Gap’s creative director Patrick Robinson had in mind when he designed the Holiday 2010 collection.

ARTINFO – Steven Meisel, one of the premier fashion photographers working today, has teamed up with fashion house Balenciaga (the founder of which, Cristóbal Balenciaga, was once dubbed “the master of us all” by Christian Dior, no sartorial slouch himself) to present the label’s Fall/Winter 2010/11 campaign. Featuring some of the top models of the moment (such as Stella Tennant), Meisel’s series of images is composed of close-up portraits of the models alongside wider shots of the women standing in small groups.
All are photographed against a lurid, fiery backdrop that looks one-part Southwestern sunset, one-part blazing wildfire.

Reuters – Italian designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana have entered a 3-year deal with English soccer club Chelsea to dress their players, muscling their way in the fashion-hungry soccer market.

AFP – Milan Fashion Week will be true to its name, covering a full seven days in September instead of a frantic long weekend as it did in February after an agreement with top designers, organisers said Tuesday.

Fashion Wire Daily – Brilliant summer sun dappled the pack of humans, canines and felines that filled the red-carpet premiere of “Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore” at the Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on Sunday, July 25. But the brightest glow of the day came from Christina Applegate’s big smile.

Fashion Wire Daily – Tinsley Mortimer launched her latest collection for Japanese handbag company Samantha Thavasa on Tuesday, July 20, at the store’s New York boutique on Madison Avenue to a crowd that delighted in her fall lineup, a girly take on ’80s-inspired bags and clutches that would be just as home at a hair metal arena rock show as they would on the set of “Gossip Girl.”

Fashion Wire Daily – Collective sighs of relief echoed down Hollywood Boulevard as Brad Pitt joined his superstar partner Angelina Jolie at the massive premiere of her new action flick “Salt.” Jolie looked gorgeous as always in a skimpy black beaded minidress, but Pitt looked positively stunning after months of sporting a mountain man grizzle of facial hair that obscured his handsome visage.

Fashion Wire Daily – When you’re a big movie star, it’s easy to whisk away from your movie premiere: just ask Katie Holmes. The actress is currently working in Toronto on the History Channel miniseries “The Kennedys,” in which she will bring Jacqueline Kennedy back to life, but her latest flick was premiering in New York City on Monday, July 19. So what’s a girl whose husband Tom Cruise makes $25 million per movie to do? Just hire a helicopter, of course.

AP – It’s no wonder the Italian businessmen claimed George Clooney was behind their fashion line — the actor knows how to wow an audience whether he’s on the red carpet or the witness stand.

Fashion Wire Daily – What made the huge Hollywood premiere of “Inception” on Tuesday, July 13, different from most? It wasn’t that it was staged at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard; that’s been the spot where movie premieres have happened since 1927. Nor was it having a huge movie star like Leonardo DiCaprio head across the street to the screaming crowd, signing autographs and posing for photos with adoring fans, for that’s been done, too.

AFP – Fashion designer Stella McCartney will oversee the design of the athletes’ clothing for the British team at the 2012 London Olympics, it was announced on Wednesday.

Appolicious – If Apple (AAPL) continues to sidestep the growing iPhone 4 antenna furor, it risks losing its grip as America’s premiere tech company. Also in today’s App Industry Roundup, experts are starting to talk about an iPhone 4 recall.

AFP – A Chinese tycoon has been quietly buying up shares in Italian fashion house Prada SpA in a bid to become its largest shareholder, his company confirmed Monday.

Fashion Wire Daily – Local fashion star Michael Michalsky staged Berlin’s biggest bumper fashion event on Friday, July 9, with a multiple runway show, opera performance and mini sketch from the local equivalent of a Broadway show.

AP – Fashion model Naomi Campbell says she will testify at the war crimes trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor.

Fashion Wire Daily – Hugo Boss, Germany’s biggest fashion label, staged a mammoth runway show in Berlin Thursday, July 8, building a runway and a restaurant for 1,300 in two massive circus marquees.

AP – Franck Sorbier proved that in couture, it’s creativity and technical savoir faire — and not deep pockets — that really count. The veteran Frenchman’s fall-winter 2011 show in a tiny hall lent to him by Sotheby’s auction house, was at the opposite end of the spectrum from the big-budget megaproductions put on by luxury conglomerates. But the collection didn’t suffer for it — au contraire.

AP – Haute couture is all about dressing up — dressing way, way, up, in fact, in made-to-measure garments that cost as much as a new car. But Jean Paul Gaultier reversed the equation Wednesday, sending out burlesque star Dita Von Teese, who peeled off layer after wildly expensive layer till she was stripped literally to the bone.

Fashion Wire Daily – Mickey Mouse and Mayor Michael Bloomberg were a happy pair in Times Square on Tuesday, July 6, as Disney and the city of New York joined together to celebrate the premiere of “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.” Mickey, of course, just said nothing and smiled, but the mayor lauded producer Jerry Bruckheimer, director Jon Turteltaub and stars Nicolas Cage, Jay Baruchel, Alfred Molina and Teresa Palmer for bringing such a big production to the Big Apple.

AFP – Mehtab Kanwal embroiders a women’s tunic, dreaming of a prosperous future as a fashion designer with a boutique — albeit in one of the most turbulent and forgotten parts of Pakistan.

Fashion Wire Daily – A giant golden lion, his burly head standing 45-feet above the audience in Paris’ Grand Palais stood sentry over the latest thoroughly chic floral fantasy couture collection from Chanel, staged with customary aplomb in Paris Tuesday, July 6. And while the lion was mammoth, the collection’s silhouette was lean and, especially for couture, short, with skirts trimmed four-inches above the knee.

AFP – Chess star Magnus Carlsen, the youngest player to ever top the International Chess Federation (FIDE) rankings, has ventured into modelling.

AP – Lindsay Lohan is getting a reprieve in one court case: A judge is delaying a civil trial that stems from one of her 2007 arrests.

Reuters – Designers of French haute couture are finding the tastes and pocketbooks of emerging market clients have been a boost for dwindling sales as they spread their commercial nets beyond wealthy Westerners.

Fashion Wire Daily – Leave it to Giorgio Armani to remind Paris of arguably the key reason for haute couture in the first place, creating hyper sophisticated fashion for the world’s most stylish women.

Fashion Wire Daily – Leave it to Giorgio Armani to remind Paris of arguably the key reason for haute couture in the first place, creating hyper sophisticated fashion for the world’s most stylish women.

Fashion Wire Daily – Leave it to Giorgio Armani to remind Paris of arguably the key reason for haute couture in the first place, creating hyper sophisticated fashion for the world’s most stylish women.

AP – Lindsay Lohan’s future includes a new fashion line, two new movies, some time in jail and another stint in rehab.

AP – A several-story-tall golden lion — a modest homage to Chanel founder Coco, a Leo — presided over the luxury giant’s over-the-top fall-winter 2011 haute couture display Tuesday, where models in sequin-covered sheath dresses and cropped jackets emerged from inside a giant pearl to trace figure eights between the towering feline’s oversized paws.

AFP – A monumental lion, teeth bared and one front paw resting proprietorially on a giant pearl, held centre stage, its golden coat caught in the setting sun under the glass dome of the Grand Palais.

Reuters – Under the glass roof of Paris’s Palais Royal, fashion house Chanel roared to life on Tuesday with a glitzy show of haute couture that hinted at the spectacle and opulence of Romanov Russia.

AP – Night of the living dead has rarely looked as good as at Julien Fournie’s fall-winter 2011 couture collection Tuesday, where models with charcoal-smudged faces wore skintight evening gowns that looked as if they’d been exhumed after years underground.

AP – When, a few weeks ago, Givenchy abruptly announced it was replacing its fall-winter 2011 haute couture show with a presentation, all sorts of theories sprung up to explain why.

AFP – Lebanese red-carpet pleasers are increasingly filling the gaps in the haute couture calendar left by French houses pulling out of fashion’s most extravagant manifestation.

AP – Stephane Rolland looked to the ocean for a fall-winter 2011 haute couture collection Tuesday of sculptural gowns in deep sea blue adorned by oblong appliques that evoked the smooth, wave-caressed shapes of beach stones.

Fashion Wire Daily – One thing that folks here in Paris always insist gives haute couture a certain validity is that its ideas and inventions eventually translate into real fashion trends, which millions of women end up wearing without ever realizing from where the initial thought came.

AP – Wonder Woman got a hard-edged makeover Monday at Alexandre Vauthier’s fall-winter 2011 couture show, swapping her unitard for sheath dresses with plunging V necklines and dangling sleeves that were today’s super-heroine’s answer to the cape.

Reuters – Dior designer John Galliano threw off any notion of recession on Monday with his boisterous collection of tight bodices and swinging skirts that recalled the extravagance of Dior’s 1950′s New Look.

AFP – John Galliano turned the runway into a lush garden for his exuberant couture show for Christian Dior on Monday, in tribute to the legendary French designer’s love of flowers.

AP – There’s no missing the Georges Chakra woman. In body-hugging goddess gowns in metallic fabrics bedazzled with sequins and rhinestones, the Lebanese designer’s girl could inadvertently blind you from a mile away.

AP – You wouldn’t think of John Galliano as having a green thumb, but the Christian Dior designer delivered an immaculately tended flower garden of riotous colors at the luxury label’s fall-winter 2011 haute couture show on Monday.

AP – Here’s the truth about fashion: It changes quickly. So what do you do when you’re stuck with a closet full of barely worn shirts, dresses and shoes?

AP – One of Richard Avedon’s most defining photographs is of a willowy model adorned in a Dior evening gown, a silk sash cascading down her slender leg, striking a dramatic pose against a row of circus elephants.

Reuters – Pop princess Britney Spears is joining the growing club of celebrities-turned-designers, launching her own fashion collection that targets the schoolgirl crowd.

AFP – A French internet billionaire, a patron of the arts and a flamboyant banker won control of Le Monde newspaper on Monday despite President Nicolas Sarkozy’s bid to stop them.

Fashion Wire Daily – Judging from the applause at the end of Lanvin’s latest menswear runway show, the best received collection in Europe these past 10 days in either Milan or Paris was that of this storied French brand.

AFP – President Nicolas Sarkozy sought to block them but a trio of investors, including the partner of the late fashion guru Yves Saint-Laurent, looked certain on Monday to take over France’s Le Monde newspaper.

AP – U.S. designer Thom Browne’s stellar Paris debut — a cinematic performance piece featuring models in identical space suits and visored helmets — closed the City of Light’s spring-summer 2011 menswear show with an intergalactic bang on Sunday.

AFP – The new collections from Dior, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Kenzo and Louis Vuitton at men’s fashion week in Paris showed strong trends in cheeky post-crisis optimism tempered by understated elegance.

Fashion Wire Daily – A whole theme of multi-functional clothes is wafting through the current menswear season in Paris, which was apparent too on the runway of the spring 2011 collection by Hermes on Saturday, June 26, in the Grand Palais.

AP – Billowing panels and fluttering swaths of fabric transformed the classic suit into something brooding, romantic and poetic as Paris menswear designers from Dior Homme to emerging Croatian talent Damir Doma served up voluminous silhouettes for spring-summer 2011 on Saturday.

AFP – The huge drapes hanging to form a bright white circle in the middle of a disused warehouse promised a show of contradictions from Dior’s new collection Saturday at Paris fashion week.

Fashion Wire Daily – If Givenchy’s talented creative director Riccardo Tisci had not ended up in fashion, he maybe should have considered a career in the church, so important is the influence of religion in this designer’s oeuvre.

AP – Kylie Minogue proved that in the name of charity, she’s capable of selling the shirt off her back.

AP – Who says menswear is boring? Paris designers on Friday challenged that notion, fielding retro, futuristic and kinky spring-summer 2011 men’s collections featuring skorts, jumpsuits and even Mexican lucha libre masks that completely enveloped the models’ heads.

AFP – The man on the street became catwalk star Friday as a host of Belgian designers showed off an urban cool inspired by mundane reality in their spring-summer collections at Paris fashion week.

AFP – Sudanese police arrested more than two dozen people overnight as they emerged from the capital’s first ever mixed-gender fashion show, several of those held told AFP on Friday.

Fashion Wire Daily – The screams echoed off the downtown skyscrapers of the City of Angels on Thursday, June 24, as hordes of “Twilight” fans massed outside the Nokia Theatre at L.A.

AFP – Hippy explorers with daisies in their hair and watery themes inspired by rainbow trout brought a naturalistic feel to the first day of Paris fashion week, all given a 3D twist from Jean-Paul Gaultier.

Reuters – Small brands can carve out a safe niche for themselves in an overcrowded fashion market, former Valentino chairman Matteo Marzotto said, adding that ideas count more than money in the crisis-hit luxury industry.

Fashion Wire Daily – Travel, the essential DNA of Louis Vuitton, was the key to the latest menswear collection from the house, albeit treks of an ephemeral sort, since most of the journeys that inspired this show in Paris on Thursday, June 24, were taken in the mind.

AP – Androgynous silhouettes and sensible sandals are set to be the must-have looks for next summer, if the first day of Paris’ four-day-long menswear collections Thursday was anything to go by.

Fashion Wire Daily – Their latest movie may be called “Grown Ups,” but that doesn’t mean that Adam Sandler and his real-life buddies who star together in the comedy have to act like that in real life. So naturally, when Sandler, Chris Rock, Kevin James, David Spade and Rob Schneider descended on the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York for the film’s premiere on Wednesday, June 23, there was nary a tie in sight.