Fashion Wire Daily - Turns out sky blue is the new black, at least it was at Hugo Boss Orange show on Thursday night, July 2, staged in a funky old factory in Berlin, where every third look had a celestial hue.

Fashion Wire Daily - Mongrels, a favored pet, though not atypically a scruffy one, might seem an odd choice of name for a fashion label, but if the latest collection from Mongrels in Common seen Thursday, July 2, in Berlin is any test, then the progeny looks like being a very fine breed.

AP - A Los Angeles fashion designer convicted of sexually assaulting seven women and teenage girls should not be granted a new trial even though a juror flirted over the phone with the defendant's sister, prosecutors argued Thursday.

AP - Austrian fashion designer Lena Hoschek says she is not put off by the prospect of "Bruno" — Sacha Baron Cohen's new film where he plays an over-the-top flamboyantly gay Austrian fashion enthusiast.

Fashion Wire Daily - Husband and wife designers Sachin and Babi have just finished their first full year rotation of fashion collections with their ready-to-wear line, yet their experience in the fashion industry is much further extended. The duo has taken their skills and expertise in embroidery and home decor and sophisticatedly segued into the women's wear scene.

AP - A celebrity fashion designer has crashed her car through the front window of a hardware store in San Diego, injuring a customer inside.

Fashion Wire Daily - If any designer in Paris can walk away feeling justifiably good about himself after the just finished menswear season it is Kris Van Assche, whose subtle collection for Dior Homme in Paris on Sunday, June 28, and edgy fare with his own label both bore one indelible trademark - his own.

Fashion Wire Daily - If any collection best captured the current state of play in men's fashion it was Lanvin, whose exhilarating show Sunday, June 28, in Paris was probably the coolest collection of clothes in the most assuredly staged show.

Reuters - Italian fashion house Versace saw an improvement in sales in May and June compared with previous months, chairman Santo Versace said on Monday.

AFP - French fashion giant Pierre Cardin said on Monday it had no plans for a sell-off to Chinese companies but was planning only to sell certain licences.

Fashion Wire Daily - If anything summed up the muffled mood of the economy it was the muted hues of the latest classic, yet faintly bohemian, Hermes menswear collection shown Saturday, June 27, in the Couvent des Cordelilers, an ancient convent in central Paris.

Fashion Wire Daily - Raf Simons unveiled his latest menswear collection Friday night, June 26, in a giant Paris institute for the hearing impaired, and the collection spoke several volumes about what's new in fashion.

Fashion Wire Daily - Part meditation on street style, part meeting of Africa and medieval Italy, split down the middle between razor sharp tailoring and urban attitude and boasting the odd cool absurdity, the latest collection from Givenchy confirms its designer, Riccardo Tisci, as one of the most important working in menswear today.

Fashion Wire Daily - In a certain sense, really good designers like really good artists and film directors, often make one extended work of art, and each show, opening or movie is just part of an extended commentary on the human comedy.

Fashion Wire Daily - Call it an example of creative noblesse oblige, where the patrician proves he's a gentleman by his very concern and sympathy for those who got a tougher break, which was the case with Louis Vuitton's spring 2010 menswear collection, inspired by New York bike messengers on Thursday, June 25.

AFP - A group of Chinese companies are in talks for a possible takeover of the brand name of French fashion giant Pierre Cardin, a company official has said.

Fashion Wire Daily - It had to happen sooner or later. After all, Cameron Diaz is 36 years old, an age where most women are either already mothers, or are thinking hard about becoming one. So it is no surprise that Diaz, who, as she joked during interviews for "My Sister's Keeper," may have "a few kids out there that I don't know about," finally plays a mom in the tearjerker film that premiered on Wednesday, June 24, in New York.

Reuters - A private Chinese shoe manufacturer on Monday media reports that it was in discussions with French attire maker Pierre Cardin for a possible acquisition.

Fashion Wire Daily - Leave it to Miuccia Prada to come up with some properly new fashion in a Milan men's fashion season where the overriding impression is of designers tweaking their own previous body of work.

AP - The French capital's spring-summer 2010 menswear displays wound down Sunday with a harder-than-usual silhouette from romantic label Lanvin, a retro rocker at British dandy Paul Smith and a sheer, shorn look at Dior Homme that sparked catty rumors about the possible departure of the luxury house's designer, Kris Van Assche.