Fashion Wire Daily - Christmas in July? Well, not quite, but almost, as retailers around town showed off their holiday offerings this week for editors so that gift guides will be ready for roll-out come November.

Fashion Wire Daily - Streetwear trade show London Edge New York breezed into town this week, July 21-22, amidst New York men's fashion week.

AP - Mariah Carey, Justin Timberlake, Beyonce and Rihanna will perform at the fifth annual Fashion Rocks concert celebrating the relationship between music and fashion.

E! Online - Add the Jonas Brothers to the list of musicians who want their own fashion line.

AFP - A curvy new heroine that walks like a runway model but has ankle pistols and deadly hair is getting ready to make her mark in a videogame world packed with macho action heroes.

Fashion Wire Daily - If something works, why not do it again?

Fashion Wire Daily - It was a night when Heath Ledger should have been celebrating, for his performance as the Joker in "The Dark Knight" (the second installment in the Christopher Nolan-Christian Bale "Batman" series) is already generating Oscar buzz.

Reuters - British supermodel Naomi Campbell refuses to retire after more than two decades on the world's catwalks because there are still too few black beauties in the fashion industry.

Reuters - The world of fashion remains dominated by five cities -- New York, Rome, Paris, Milan and London -- but B-list players like Sydney and Dubai are coming on strong, according to an annual survey of top fashion cities.

Fashion Wire Daily - Just the gap between high and low is increasingly closed - mixing a designer jacket with a pair of jeans from a chain store like Gap is perfectly acceptable these days - it also makes sense that customers of Gap Inc.'s various brands, Old Navy, Gap and Banana Republic, would look to these stores to satisfy different wardrobe needs, whether it's clothing for kicking around the campfire or attending a company holiday party.