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• Gaultier channels Winehouse, stars shop for Oscars (AP)

  AP - The final day of Paris's spring-summer haute couture week saw Jean Paul Gaultier serve up a cigarettes-and-all homage to late singer Amy Winehouse and Valentino show off the dazzling couture work of seamstresses who toiled for thousands of hours to create a lavish white collection.

  
  

• Glee's Lea Michele fills closet with Candie's (AP)

  AP - Lea Michele is moving from a locker to a much bigger closet. She's the star of the new Candie's ad campaign, dubbed "Hanging at Home," shot at a private mansion in Beverly Hills, Calif. The images show her poolside, in the kitchen, in a bed with satin sheets and in a walk-in closet, wearing a new outfit and pair of shoes in each one.

  
  

• Gaultier fetes Winehouse, Givenchy goes futuristic (Reuters)

  Reuters - Jean Paul Gaultier delivered an ode to Amy Winehouse at his spring/summer 2012 haute couture show in Paris on Wednesday. The late pop singer's musical spirit and bad girl fashion sense were all over the runway.

• Chanel aims sky-high, and Armani courts A-list (AP)

  AP - On day two of Paris's frantic three days of haute couture collections, Chanel took the fashion crowd to the skies and highlights included super-sexy, celebrity-filled Armani Prive.

  
  

• French brand Courreges takes retro fashion online (Reuters)

  Reuters - Courreges, the futuristic fashion brand of the 1960s, is poised to bring its vinyl boots and A-line mini-dresses back into vogue, relaunching the French name online.

• Look of old Hollywood glamour is a modern favorite (AP)

  AP - In the Hollywood landscape of new, new, new, what really stands out is that today's starlets still emulate the looks of classic screen beauties, including Elizabeth Taylor, Marilyn Monroe and Rita Hayworth, who ruled the red carpet in the 1950s.

• Dior shrugs off rumors at Paris Haute Couture show (Reuters)

  Reuters - Christian Dior shrugged off talk about who might succeed John Galliano as the fallen star designer's stand-in enjoyed a well-received Spring/Summer Haute Couture show on Monday and seen roaring sales in spite of the global economic malaise.

• Dior impresses and Versace dazzles in couture (AP)

  AP - France may have lost an A in its credit rating, but fashion seems to have won it back with a flourishing start to haute couture week — from the A-list celebrities to Dior's 1950s A-line silhouettes.

  
  

• Power of Europe's boardrooms captured in new book (Reuters)

  Reuters - For 15 years, New York-based Dutch photographer Jacqueline Hassink has been making her mark with global art projects, covering subjects as diverse as Haute Couture fitting rooms in Paris, the gardens of Kyoto and the boardrooms of Europe's leading corporations.

• Luxury watches seek solace in glamour of bygone eras (Reuters)

  Reuters - Simple elegance for debt-ridden Europe, glitzy diamonds and gold for booming Asia.

• Gucci's Poetically Fallen Angels (Fashion Wire Daily)

  Fashion Wire Daily - Poetry is not traditionally the best paid of trades, though poets were certainly dressed as the chicest of success stories in the fall 2012 menswear collection of Gucci, staged Monday, Jan. 16, in Milan.

  
  

• Prada's Powerful Patrician Panache (Fashion Wire Daily)

  Fashion Wire Daily - Entitled "Il Palazzo" and featuring a rarefied list of major league actors - Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe, Gary Oldman and Tim Roth, to name a few - the latest runway show by the house of Prada was a fashionable statement on the power of dressing, rather than just powerful dressing.

  
  

• Missoni's Anglo Gent Restoration (Fashion Wire Daily)

  Fashion Wire Daily - There are few more pointedly family businesses in Milan fashion than the house of Missoni, which staged its fall 2012 men's collection on Sunday, Jan. 15, even if this season the fundamental influence was transparently not Italian, but British.

  
  

• Burberry's Sartorial New Gentility (Fashion Wire Daily)

  Fashion Wire Daily - The true test of a design champion, like their equivalent in sports, is the ability to consistently turn out hit collections, fashion statements that both set a stylistic agenda and sell large numbers of clothes.

  
  

• Dolce & Gabbana: Bullion, Cashmere and Pajamas (Fashion Wire Daily)

  Fashion Wire Daily - If you really wanted to get away from the global recession and economic blues then your best destination this month is surely a runway show by Dolce & Gabbana.

  
  

• Big Surprises at the Critics' Choice Movie Awards (Fashion Wire Daily)

  Fashion Wire Daily - There were some shocked faces at the 17th Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards held at the Hollywood Palladium on Thursday, Jan. 12, and none more than that of Viola Davis, who took home the Best Actress prize for her fine work as a maid in "The Help."

  
  

• Valentino's New Rich Volumes (Fashion Wire Daily)

  Fashion Wire Daily - Get ready for a new era of boom times in men's fashion. A whole slew of high level brands are now investing huge sums in menswear; a major league bet based on the belief that a generation of millions of men in Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC) markets are about to spend large sums on building proper gentlemanly wardrobes.

  
  

• Favorite Stars Win Big at the People's Choice Awards (Fashion Wire Daily)

  Fashion Wire Daily - She's the People's Choice Award winner for Best Pop Artist, a fact that got Demi Lovato all choked up during the live awards show at the Nokia Theater in downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday, Jan. 11.

  
  

• Chinese haute-couture steps up at HK Fashion Week (Reuters)

  Reuters - China at one time may have been better known for fashion knockoffs than catwalk creations, but Chinese haute-couture is now finding its feet on the international stage -- even as it grows ever more popular with customers at home.

• Dandy financiers cut through gloom at Milan week (Reuters)

  Reuters - Fashion designers brushed up capes, trench coats and pinstripe suits to enliven the wardrobes of businessmen who want to cut their way through the gloom.