Fashion Wire Daily - Every so often, a model comes along who functions as more than just a walking hanger or as a Victoria's Secret bombshell. She's someone who represents a broader cultural phenomenon, usually related to youth, and not just a fashion fantasy world. Twiggy, Peggy Moffit, Kate Moss - these are models who became style icons and captured the essence of British cool.

Reuters - Salmon is one of Scotland's most feted foods, but who knew those scaly skins could be so useful and attractive on anything other than fish?

Fashion Wire Daily - The Oscars of the fragrance industry - the FiFi Awards - honored the top fragrances and the people behind them on Tuesday, May 20 at their 36th annual celebration in New York.

Reuters - Models wearing crash helmets and pod-shaped skirts gave Australian Fashion Week a futuristic twist on Tuesday, contrasting with catwalks featuring teensy bikinis, short summer dresses and flowing evening wear.

Reuters - Australian Fashion Week organizers said on Wednesday that tighter rules on skinny models were not needed for its catwalks, despite one Australian model being pulled briefly due to fears for her health.

E! Online - Project Runway's Nina Garcia is searching for the latest look—in employment. Word has it, Elle magazine's recently ousted fashion consultant might just be heading to Harper's Bazaar.

AFP - Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen remains the highest-earning catwalk queen after raking in more than 35 million dollars last year, Forbes.com revealed on Wednesday.

Fashion Wire Daily - Just in time for summer blockbuster season, with comic book-based movies such as "Iron Man" and "The Dark Knight" taking over the collective imagination, comes the Metropolitan Museum of Art's "Superheroes" at the Costume Institute, a look at the intersection of fashion and the fantastic and the transformative power of costume as it relates specifically to popular superhero characters.

Reuters - Dueling fashion divas have nothing on the ongoing tug-of-war drama between NBC Universal and the Weinstein Co. over the cable hit "Project Runway."

Fashion Wire Daily - With newborns and subsequent sleepless nights on the agenda, new mothers Jennifer Lopez and Christina Aguilera took great interest in the leisurely looks featured in John Galliano's Cruise 2009 collection for Christian Dior on Monday, May 12 at a restaurant under the 59th Street bridge in New York. A little rest and relaxation in a floaty frock sitting poolside might be just the ticket for these two moms.

Reuters - Young designers competing to get noticed by fashion labels can now launch their careers online through the fashion world's answer to the social networking Web site MySpace.com.

Fashion Wire Daily - Reptiles - and more specifically, pythons - were the inspiration that Francisco Costa cited for his Resort 2009 collection for Calvin Klein shown on May 19, 2008 at the Calvin Klein showroom in New York.

E! Online - Is Madonna going to get swept away again?A source at the Cannes Film Festival says that famed wrap-dress fashion designer Diane Von Furstenberg is hosting an exclusive VIP luncheon tomorrow to toast the Cannes screening of I Am Because We Are, Madonna's documentary about Malawi AIDS orphans.

Fashion Wire Daily - Now in its tenth year, the 2008 Gen Art Styles competition presented the next crop of emerging fashion talent at Hammerstein Ballroom in New York on Monday night, May 19, before a panel of judges that included fashion designers Victoria Bartlett and Marc Ecko among others, Sak's Fifth Avenue Fashion Director Michael Fink and Designer &amp Agent's founder Barbara Kramer.