Fashion Wire Daily - There's a fine line between understated and dull, a narrow gap twixt quiet elegance and predictable formulism, and one cleverly negotiated – happily on the right side - at Louis Vuitton on Thursday in Paris when it presented its latest men's collection.

AP - The devil may wear Prada — but the pope does not.

Reuters - Italian designers showed that next summer will be all about chilling out for men, with slim-look tops and loose trousers epitomizing a relaxed feel to collections.

Reuters - East will meet West next summer for Giorgio Armani male fans with Asian inspired long shirts, shantung trousers and fitted jackets, the Italian designer suggested in his menswear show, which won him loud applause.

Reuters - On a gloriously sunny afternoon at Wimbledon, Serena Williams strode onto court in a trenchcoat.

Fashion Wire Daily - Gucci took off on a rock and roll tour Monday in Milan with a men's collection where the models looked like Flower Power guitarists or arty bassists checking into a faintly louche hotel after their latest gig.

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.