AP - Serena Williams inspires her legion of fans as a world-class athlete, but for fashion inspiration, she turns to Kimora Lee Simmons.

AP - Fashion designer Anand Jon Alexander ditched his profession and turned into a serial predator, hunting for girls and young women to have humiliating and painful sex with him, a prosecutor said Friday during opening statements of his trial.

AP - Christian Siriano means business.

Reuters - A dearth of black models strutting the catwalks is a persistent issue in the fashion world and while the numbers have improved, there are still too few, fashion observers say.

Reuters - Imaginative styles evoking journeys to far-off lands dominated New York fashion shows this week, with experts saying the spring lines reflect consumers' economic woes and desire to escape uncertainty.

Fashion Wire Daily - Vera Wang's runway backdrop featured two dramatic slabs of a faceted mirror sculpture in homage to the whimsical art of Niki de Sainte Phalle, the free-spirited woman whose life and work as a sculptor, painter and architect was the muse of Wang's Spring 2009 collection, which she showed in Bryant Park on Thursday, Sept. 11.

Fashion Wire Daily - The models in the Calvin Klein show on Thursday, Sept. 11, did not so much walk down the catwalk as waft; their clothes as light and insubstantial as a heat haze, their fabrics creased and folded like rumpled bed sheets.

Reuters - The final six contestants on U.S. television's "Project Runway" showed their design collections on Friday, hoping to become the hit show's winner and someday join the professionals on the fashion show circuit.

Fashion Wire Daily - A flock of limousines floated outside the Chelsea Museum on Wednesday, Sept. 10, to see Marchesa's latest collection attesting to the pulling power of Georgina Chapman, whose main claim to fame has been creating red carpet looks for the sort of people who star in her husband's, movie mogul Harvey Weinstein's, films.

AP - How does a seemingly unusual trend — to wit, harem pants — end up on almost every runway at New York Fashion Week?

AP - Christian Siriano means business.

AP - Rob Thomas says he spends more time primping than his wife, model Marisol.

AP - At New York Fashion Week on Wednesday, the designers weren't just looking to their muses for inspiration — they were raiding the muses' closets.