AFP - Giorgio Armani's voluptuous elegance rubbed shoulders Saturday with Bottega Veneta's timeless sophistication in their ready-to-wear offerings for next winter's woman at Milan Fashion Week.

Fashion Wire Daily - Recession? What recession? That felt very much the mood at Giorgio Armani's latest runway show Saturday, Feb. 27, in Milan, when Italy's most famous designer staged an Asian-tinted show, before the industry's top critics and editors and a team of his executives buoyed by their booming business in China.

AP - These parsimonious days fashion trends often start with the accessories, usually the least expensive and therefore most sellable items in a collection.

Fashion Wire Daily - We got a burst of signature Versace triumphant rock and roll tailoring in the latest collection from the Milan house, a ramped up biker gal marching to gutsy beat laid down by a self-confident designer.

AFP - Top Italian fashion designer Versace laid on the leather Friday while Blumarine's Anna Molinari and maestro Giorgio Armani offered a softer, more feminine touch at Milan Fashion Week.

AP - Fur, leather and wool dominated the runways Friday on the second day of Milan fall-winter 2010 fashion week, packed tight with shows as designers scrambled to get their work in while top editors are still in town.

Fashion Wire Daily - Fendi: Insouciant Chic Godfrey Deeny February 26th, 2010 @ 00:10 AM - Milan How will elegant women dress this fall? Judging from the latest collection by Fendi, it will be in voluminous layers of majestic fabrics, billowing shapes anchored on the ground by exotic galoshes and faux rubber boots.

Fashion Wire Daily - It says a great deal about designers current search for optimism when one of the bellwether fashion brands on the planet, Prada, finds inspiration in the early innocence of the Baby Boomer era in American life.

Reuters - Minutes to go until showtime, and the cool calm that was has turned into a manic frenzy as stylists, makeup artists and hairdressers add the final touches to the models about to strut down the catwalk.

The Newsroom - Burberry has become the premiere brand to break through fashion week's fourth wall this season by staging the world's first-ever global 3D fashion show. (To note, the British fashion brand wasn't the only one to engage with the technology conceived more than half-a-century ago: Los Angeles tailored menswear label Native Son's New York Fashion Week presentation included a multi-dimensional video that required 3D glasses for viewing.)

AP - "Where is Anna Wintour?" asked a message across one runway Thursday on the first day of Milan's winter womenswear fashion week. It was the question of the moment as fashionistas feared the superstar editor would sit out much of the festivities because of her tight schedule.

The Newsroom - Why, oh why, are media executives always trying to fix things that aren't broken? Lifetime, the cable television network, has been providing reliably middle-brow, often kitschy, occasionally drinking-game-worthy female-slanted programming for nearly two decades now. So when the channel began angling for a more cutting-edge cultural identity — most notably, stealing Project Runway from Bravo, a saga that resulted in a long court battle before the fashion-world reality staple was allowed back on the air — longtime fans began to slip away. Without new viewers to replace them, ratings tumbled.

AP - Hundreds of fashionistas, collectors and would-be consumers with a dream jostled for a closer look at some of the more than 800 garments, accessories and shoes by the storied luxury giant Chanel that hit the auction blocks Thursday.

AP - British media reports say supermodels Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell have joined Alexander McQueen's family in London to pay tribute to the late fashion designer.

Fashion Wire Daily - Tommy Hilfiger's brand of preppy, all-American classics with a twist closed New York's fall 2010 fashion week - as well as the Bryant Park venue, on Thursday, Feb. 18.

Fashion Wire Daily - New York fashion's torchbearer for sculptural chic, Francisco Costa, stayed the brand's course with his fall 2010 collection for Calvin Klein on Thursday, Feb. 18.

Fashion Wire Daily - Leave it to Ralph Lauren to best capture the mood of New York, with a darkly classic fall 2010 collection on Thursday, Feb. 18, where even the floral prints seemed photographed at night.

Fashion Wire Daily - In New York this week, a number of designers have not only been showing what's in store six months from now on their fall 2010 runways, but they've also been giving people a taste of what they can buy right now.

Fashion Wire Daily - Even if Michael Kors is hanging out in the backwoods of some small mountain town, he can be counted on to make it feel like the most deluxe hillside retreat with jaw-dropping panoramic views. You might be surrounded by nature on all sides, but it's kept at a safe distance thanks to layers of cashmere, mohair and of course, lots of fur.

Fashion Wire Daily - The next time they remake one of those classic Hollywood ocean liner movies, Oscar de la Renta has the very collection to dress the entire female cast.