Fashion Wire Daily - Russian imperial, romantic, revelatory and reeking of the richest quality, the latest Valentino haute couture collection was a tour de force of taste and one of the most beautiful moments seen in Paris in many season.

Reuters - Italian fashion brand Valentino is enjoying solid demand for haute couture pieces, thanks to Middle Eastern, Russian and U.S. buyers and trading overall continues to improve, its head said on Wednesday.

Fashion Wire Daily - All that glitters will frequently be in black this fall, especially at Chanel, whose latest haute couture show, staged Tuesday, July 5, in Paris, recreated the city's most elegant square, Place Vendome, in all its late night glory.

Fashion Wire Daily - Go east young lady, go east. Giorgio Armani dedicated his latest haute couture Prive Collection to Japan, sending models dressed as Geisha gals, Noh theatre ladies and Kimono-clad stars down his runway in Paris on Tuesday, July 5.

Fashion Wire Daily - Magic, where reality has even briefly a supernatural charm, seems the right term to use in describing the debut haute couture collection of Giambattista Valli, so evocative was the elegance of its spirit, so otherworldly its mood.

Fashion Wire Daily - A new broom swept through Christian Dior on Monday afternoon, July 4, a modernist gale and a witty architectural take on fashion, in the first show for the celebrated French label by its de facto new couturier, British-born Bill Gaytten.

Fashion Wire Daily - Summer is in full swing in Hollywood, which made it simple for Jennifer Aniston to get dressed for the premiere of her raunchy new comedy "Horrible Bosses." The actress slipped into a glittery little black minidress and a pair of strappy black sandals, and she was good to go on Thursday, June 30, off to Grauman's Chinese Theatre along with her new boyfriend, actor Justin Theroux.

Fashion Wire Daily - It was scooter mania on Hollywood Boulevard on Monday, June 27, as Tom Hanks and a posse of his pals rode motor scooters up to the "Larry Crowne" movie premiere at the Mann Chinese Theatre.

Fashion Wire Daily - Katie Holmes flew solo to the premiere of her upcoming horror flick "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark" on Sunday, June 26, but she had a surrogate daughter to giggle with on the red carpet.

Fashion Wire Daily - One iconoclastic designer staged his latest image smashing collection in the restaurant of the most famous fashion iconoclast of them all in Paris on Sunday, June 26.

Fashion Wire Daily - Less was very visibly more at Dior Homme on Saturday, June 25, in Paris, when the tailored refinement of the house's latest menswear collection synched smartly with the charming unfussiness of this show's great staging.

AP - The house that John Galliano built is now that of Bill Gaytten.

Fashion Wire Daily - Paris fashion's most iconoclastic menswear designer is Riccardo Tisci, and next season he would like stylish men to dress in sequined kilts, militaristic postman's blousons and sweat shirts in hyper-enlarged tropical prints.

AFP - A longtime close associate of John Galliano emerged Friday at the creative helm of the label he founded, then lost after his spectacular ouster from Christian Dior.

Fashion Wire Daily - Paris on the morning of Friday, June 24, witnessed a tremendous tour de force of modern tailoring. Its location was the runway show of Yves Saint Laurent, where the house's creative director Stefano Pilati presented the best cut clothes seen so far in the European men's collections for spring 2012, and a visual declaration of a new modern aesthetic.

AFP - Prada, which began trading in Hong Kong on Friday, is a family-owned Milanese fashion house that has been around for nearly a century and has become one of the global luxury market's top brands.

Fashion Wire Daily - Teen television star Selena Gomez looked all grown up on Thursday, June 23, as she walked the red carpet in New York to celebrate "Monte Carlo," her new feature-film comedy. Wearing a form-fitting, cleavage-revealing gown, the actress, who turns 19 in July, has obviously shed her childish ways.

AP - Shares of Italian fashion house Prada SpA were nearly flat in their Hong Kong stock market debut Friday, amid lukewarm investor interest in the city's most glamorous IPO of the year.

AFP - Italian luxury fashion house Prada made a lacklustre stock market debut in Hong Kong Friday amid choppy global markets and waning investor interest after a string of blockbuster IPOs.