Fashion Wire Daily - With the Milan men's collection's practically bereft of any clothes one might remotely consider wearing to work, and most designers creating sabbatical chic, it was refreshing to witness the latest collection from Alessandro Dell'Acqua whose aesthetic message appeared to be, why not take the time off work to write poetry.

Reuters - Flowers and flamingos injected a dose of the tropical into Milan fashion week on Monday when Gucci designer Frida Giannini dressed her men colorfully for next summer.

Reuters - Smart-casual fashion house Tommy Hilfiger is focusing on expansion after turning around its U.S. business and currently has no plans for a stock market listing, its chief executive said.

Fashion Wire Daily - Few things are more painful than watching a major luxury label get things badly wrong, which was very much the dismaying case Sunday night in Milan when Prada decided to launch its latest men's cologne and made it tricky for most guests to actually smell the very product.

Fashion Wire Daily - The coolest classical clothes one can see in Milan this season are available from the house of Ferre, where the late designer's former assistant produced a spring 2009 men's collection of great poise and craftily inventive fabrication.

Reuters - Italian designer Roberto Cavalli offered men's tops and trousers decorated with prints of pictures he had taken of an African sunset and overlapping palm leaves at his spring/summer 2009 show on Sunday.

AP - The latest "first" for Barack Obama comes off the Milan runway.

Fashion Wire Daily - We got a posh pastel moment at Versace on Saturday in Milan, when the Medusa headed label staged their spring 2009 men’s collection before an eclectic audience of music, movie and mode greats.

Fashion Wire Daily - There's a hemline theory of economic cycles on Wall Street which predicts the severity of recession's by how much skirts rise above the knee, a curious method given the financial district's macho culture and historical domination by men.

Reuters - Italian designer Roberto Cavalli offered men's tops and trousers decorated with prints of pictures he had taken of an African sunset and overlapping palm leaves at his spring/summer 2009 show on Sunday.

Reuters - Italian designer team Dolce & Gabbana kicked off Milan's fashion week in relaxed style on Saturday, taking inspiration from oriental kimonos to kit out men in silk evening pajamas for next summer.

AFP - Supermodel Naomi Campbell failed to turn up as scheduled at a runway show in Brazil on Saturday, apparently after her plans were upset by a conviction the day before for assaulting police officers at Heathrow airport in April.

Reuters - Italian designer team Dolce & Gabbana kicked off Milan's fashion week in a relaxed style on Saturday, taking inspiration from oriental kimonos to kit out men in silk evening pajamas next summer.

Fashion Wire Daily - Porcelain dolls and little green men (and women) were just some of the disparate influences found on the runways during day four of Sao Paulo Summer 2009 Fashion Week, where minimalism takes a back seat to more baroque concepts in dressing.