Fashion Wire Daily - Designer Christian Audigier brought his Ed Hardy label to the Main Stage at the Mercedes-Benz Spring 2009 Los Angeles Fashion Week on Monday, Oct. 13, showing his signature tattoo-inspired streetwear to an appreciative audience.

Fashion Wire Daily - You know you are doing something right when a star-studded packed house repeatedly breaks out in cheers and applause in the midst of your runway show; that's what happened to designer Kevan Hall as his latest womenswear collection launched this season's Los Angeles Fashion Week on Sunday.

Fashion Wire Daily - Designers Sophia Coloma and Marissa Ribisi are the women behind Whitney Kros, the casualwear label chosen to be the "Mercedes-Benz Presents" Designers at the Mercedes-Benz Spring 2009 Los Angeles Fashion Week being held at Smashbox Studios in Culver City all this week.

Reuters - The CW is spinning off its hit reality series "America's Next Top Model."

Fashion Wire Daily - The fantasy film "City of Ember" lit up New York City on Tuesday night, as the movie's veteran stars Bill Murray, Tim Robbins and Martin Landau joined youngsters Saoirse Ronan and Harry Treadaway and director Gil Kenan at the glittery screening.

Fashion Wire Daily - The very term intellectual fashion conjures up images of dark, lumpy and staid clothes, which is the exact opposite to what we got at the tour de force Miu Miu collection for spring 2009 Sunday in Paris. This was intellectual fashion of the highest order, yet the result was an exhilarating display of style, graphic punch and aesthetic panache.

Fashion Wire Daily - Leave it to Marc Jacobs to inject the right dose of energy, sexual explicitness and edgy fashion that Paris fashion season desperately needed this season in his spring 2009 collection for Louis Vuitton.

Fashion Wire Daily - The boys from "Body of Lies" met up on Sunday night in New York to premiere their new action flick, and the three seemed to have been dressed by the same stylist.

E! Online - • Heidi Klum's latest runway project involves some seriously scantily clad catwalkers: The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show features the likes of Klum, Alessandra Ambrosia, Selita Ebanks, Doutzen Kroes, Adriana Lima, Marisa Miller and Miranda Kerr "in this holiday infused lingerie runway show" taking place at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach and airing Dec. 3. Bells won't be the only thing jingling.

Fashion Wire Daily - It's amusing that in a moment when American economic policies are being questioned in the midst of the current financial crisis that France's most illustrious luxury label, Hermes, should dedicate its entire collection to the United States' quirkiest contribution to modern entertainment, the cowboy movie.

Fashion Wire Daily - Clint Eastwood is no fool. He knew that the moment he cast Angelina Jolie as the woman to play the single mother of a kidnapped child in his new fact-based period drama "Changeling" that she would bring more than just her acting talents to the project. She and partner Brad Pitt are, after all, the most famous celebrity pair on the planet, so where Angelina and Brad go, publicity follows.

Fashion Wire Daily - The house of Valentino has dropped Alessandra Facchinetti as its designer and replaced her with two former assistants of the founder of the label, Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli.

AP - Paris Fashion Week ended on Sunday, capping a season which saw designers play it safe to coax customers into stores despite the global financial crisis.

Fashion Wire Daily - We discovered the ideal cure for the current financial blues; attending Chanel's rock-n-roll aristocrat runway show, Friday, Oct. 3, in Paris.

Fashion Wire Daily - The mood got very somber and rather solemn Thursday, Oct. 2, when viewing the spring 2009 collection of Yves Saint Laurent, the first women's show presented by the house since the death of its founder.

Fashion Wire Daily - One fashion house that seems poised to ride out the current financial crisis is surely Stella McCartney, the London-based designer who staged a wittily tailored spring 2009 collection in Paris Thursday, Oct. 2, that was all about women raiding their boyfriends' wardrobe for clothes and inspiration.

Fashion Wire Daily - We got a major shift in paradigm and aesthetics at Dries Van Noten, the Belgium print master, ethnic driven and gardening obsessed designer who went all modern and chic in his spring 2009 collection staged Wednesday in Paris.

Reuters - The new Hermes woman is a 21st century Western film heroine.