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• After "Avatar," Japan fashion show to go 3D (Reuters)

  Reuters - Move over, Na'vis: some of Japan's top models will strut down the catwalk in a 3D fashion event this weekend, highlighting the increasing dazzle of the third dimension beyond the movie industry.

• Louis Vuitton's womanhood celebration closes Paris (AP)

  AP - After a week of shows dominated by the rail-thin teens who are ubiquitous on today's catwalks, Paris fall-winter ready-to-wear 2010-11 displays concluded Wednesday with a sensual celebration of women in all their curvaceous glory at Louis Vuitton.

  
  

• Louis Vuitton's Silver Screen Femininity (Fashion Wire Daily)

  Fashion Wire Daily - It was all very 1950s heroine chic at Louis Vuitton Wednesday, March 10, in Paris, when the label's designer Marc Jacobs sent out a series of proper, feminine looks onto a runway that circled a huge water fountain in a courtyard of the Louvre Museum.

  
  

• Chanel's Fake Fur Ice Maidens (Fashion Wire Daily)

  Fashion Wire Daily - One season after staging a Chanel runway show in a reconstructed Normandy farm, the house's designer Karl Lagerfeld presented its latest collection Tuesday, March 9, in Paris, in the midst of a custom-built iceberg, literally imported from Scandinavia.

  
  

• Chanel does climate change, with real icebergs (AP)

  AP - Models in head-to-toe yeti suits picked their way around towering but quickly melting icebergs, sloshing through a deep puddle of Arctic melt in their shaggy fake fur.

  
  

• McQueen's final fashion show a celebration of life (Reuters)

  Reuters - British designer Alexander McQueen's final collection on Monday revealed a feast of colors and textures, celebrating his skill and passion for spectacle just weeks after his suicide.

  
  

• Chanel muses on global cooling with iceberg show (Reuters)

  Reuters - An event based around hundreds of fashionistas flying in from all over the world was never going to be a convincing platform for environmental campaigning, but designers in Paris haven't let that stop them.

  
  

• Yves Saint Laurent's New Corporate Woman (Fashion Wire Daily)

  Fashion Wire Daily - The house of Yves Saint Laurent took a step into a rather new dimension Monday, March 8, in Paris with a collection the label's designer Stefano Pilati said was targeted at women in powerful positions.

  
  

• Paris waxes retro with Kenzo, Valli collections (AP)

  AP - Paris pulsed with retro energy on Monday, as the French capital's fall-winter 2010-11 ready-to-wear shows moved into day six with Giambattista Valli's feather-light display of 1960s elegance and a boho chic '70s collection from Kenzo.

  
  

• Valli's Walk of Shame Chic (Fashion Wire Daily)

  Fashion Wire Daily - If style is grace under pressure, as Ernest Hemingway once defined it, then designer Giambattista Valli surely has it in spades.

  
  

• Predictable Wins at the 2010 Oscars (Fashion Wire Daily)

  Fashion Wire Daily - At this year's 82nd Annual Academy Awards, there were very few surprises.

  
  

• Jean Paul Gaultier's World Tour (Fashion Wire Daily)

  Fashion Wire Daily - Guests got a tour of the world without moving from their seats at the latest Jean Paul Gaultier runway show, where the designer raced through a score of ethnic cultures in his latest fashion potpourri.

  
  

• Viktor & Rolf Dressing Up in Public (Fashion Wire Daily)

  Fashion Wire Daily - Often the simplest of ideas are the most effective in fashion, which was very much the case with the latest runway show, or work or performance art, by Dutch duo Viktor & Rolf.

  
  

• Lanvin's African Magic (Fashion Wire Daily)

  Fashion Wire Daily - With voodoo drums and congas on the soundtrack, Lanvin designer Alber Elbaz took this fashion house on a tour of Africa in a darkly chic fall 2010 collection of clothes on Friday, March 5, in Paris.

  
  

• Christian Dior - A Night At the Races (Fashion Wire Daily)

  Fashion Wire Daily - John Galliano, the Christian Dior creative director, is veritably consistent, but this season with a delightful libertine twist.

  
  

• Sharon Wauchob: Artily Minimalist Rockers (Fashion Wire Daily)

  Fashion Wire Daily - What a difference a night job makes, as you could see from the packed audience in Paris on Thursday, March 4, for the latest collection by Sharon Wauchob.

  
  

• Balenciaga: Ennobling Domesticity (Fashion Wire Daily)

  Fashion Wire Daily - Gaudy graphics, packaging, and cheap labels and were the unlikely raw materials in the latest runway show from Balenciaga, one of the most keenly awaited collections in the fashion industry.

  
  

• Retrospective revisits YSL's enduring great themes (AP)

  AP - Yves Saint Laurent, the master of couture, has returned less than two years after his death in a major retrospective previewed Monday, covering his four decades as a fashion designer whose artistry empowered women.

  
  

• Dries Van Noten's Posh Militarism (Fashion Wire Daily)

  Fashion Wire Daily - In the latest collection from Dries Van Noten, he staged an artistic military maneuver for the first major show of Paris fashion week.

  
  

• Celebrities? So last season, say Paris fashionistas (Reuters)

  Reuters - Maybe it's the effect of recession, maybe it's simply a case of Hollywood fatigue -- whatever the reason, buyers and designers at Paris fashion week are declaring the end of the celebrity cult.