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Men's underwear getting a little extra attention
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 AP - Some things are fashion, and some are necessity. Where do men's undergarments fall? Increasingly, right in the middle.
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Gaultier channels Winehouse, stars shop for Oscars
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 AP - The final day of Paris's spring-summer haute couture week saw Jean Paul Gaultier serve up a cigarettes-and-all homage to late singer Amy Winehouse and Valentino show off the dazzling couture work of seamstresses who toiled for thousands of hours to create a lavish white collection.
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Glee's Lea Michele fills closet with Candie's
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 AP - Lea Michele is moving from a locker to a much bigger closet. She's the star of the new Candie's ad campaign, dubbed "Hanging at Home," shot at a private mansion in Beverly Hills, Calif. The images show her poolside, in the kitchen, in a bed with satin sheets and in a walk-in closet, wearing a new outfit and pair of shoes in each one.
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Gaultier fetes Winehouse, Givenchy goes futuristic
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Reuters - Jean Paul Gaultier delivered an ode to Amy Winehouse at his spring/summer 2012 haute couture show in Paris on Wednesday. The late pop singer's musical spirit and bad girl fashion sense were all over the runway.
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Chanel aims sky-high, and Armani courts A-list
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 AP - On day two of Paris's frantic three days of haute couture collections, Chanel took the fashion crowd to the skies and highlights included super-sexy, celebrity-filled Armani Prive.
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French brand Courreges takes retro fashion online
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Reuters - Courreges, the futuristic fashion brand of the 1960s, is poised to bring its vinyl boots and A-line mini-dresses back into vogue, relaunching the French name online.
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Look of old Hollywood glamour is a modern favorite
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AP - In the Hollywood landscape of new, new, new, what really stands out is that today's starlets still emulate the looks of classic screen beauties, including Elizabeth Taylor, Marilyn Monroe and Rita Hayworth, who ruled the red carpet in the 1950s.
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Dior shrugs off rumors at Paris Haute Couture show
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Reuters - Christian Dior shrugged off talk about who might succeed John Galliano as the fallen star designer's stand-in enjoyed a well-received Spring/Summer Haute Couture show on Monday and seen roaring sales in spite of the global economic malaise.
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Dior impresses and Versace dazzles in couture
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 AP - France may have lost an A in its credit rating, but fashion seems to have won it back with a flourishing start to haute couture week — from the A-list celebrities to Dior's 1950s A-line silhouettes.
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Power of Europe's boardrooms captured in new book
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Reuters - For 15 years, New York-based Dutch photographer Jacqueline Hassink has been making her mark with global art projects, covering subjects as diverse as Haute Couture fitting rooms in Paris, the gardens of Kyoto and the boardrooms of Europe's leading corporations.
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Gucci's Poetically Fallen Angels
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 Fashion Wire Daily - Poetry is not traditionally the best paid of trades, though poets were certainly dressed as the chicest of success stories in the fall 2012 menswear collection of Gucci, staged Monday, Jan. 16, in Milan.
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Prada's Powerful Patrician Panache
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 Fashion Wire Daily - Entitled "Il Palazzo" and featuring a rarefied list of major league actors - Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe, Gary Oldman and Tim Roth, to name a few - the latest runway show by the house of Prada was a fashionable statement on the power of dressing, rather than just powerful dressing.
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Missoni's Anglo Gent Restoration
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 Fashion Wire Daily - There are few more pointedly family businesses in Milan fashion than the house of Missoni, which staged its fall 2012 men's collection on Sunday, Jan. 15, even if this season the fundamental influence was transparently not Italian, but British.
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Luxury watches seek solace in glamour of bygone eras
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Reuters - Simple elegance for debt-ridden Europe, glitzy diamonds and gold for booming Asia.
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Chinese haute-couture steps up at HK Fashion Week
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Reuters - China at one time may have been better known for fashion knockoffs than catwalk creations, but Chinese haute-couture is now finding its feet on the international stage -- even as it grows ever more popular with customers at home.
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Dandy financiers cut through gloom at Milan week
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Reuters - Fashion designers brushed up capes, trench coats and pinstripe suits to enliven the wardrobes of businessmen who want to cut their way through the gloom.
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Hollywood Golden Age a hot look at Golden Globes
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Reuters - Timeless elegance, fitted bodices and mermaid trains ruled the Golden Globes' red carpet on Sunday as A-list celebrities channeled old-style Hollywood glamour.
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Jolie and Pitt grace the Globes in glamorous style
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 AP - Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt fully dressed their part as a glamorous Hollywood power couple at Sunday night's Golden Globe Awards: She in a body-hugging white strapless gown with a flash of red at the bustline by Atelier Versace that matched perfectly her lips and handbag, and he in a classic, bow-tie tuxedo by Salvatore Ferragamo.
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