AP - Naomi Campbell danced on the sidewalk of Madison Avenue in leather hotpants. Alexander Wang led a dance party in a department store. And Vogue's Anna Wintour wore a (gasp) T-shirt.

Fashion Wire Daily - If any label is a bellwether of what's next in modern glamour, it is arguably BCBG Max Azria, an edgily minimalist collection whose show in New York on Friday, Sept. 10, was a clever warning to expect understatement to be the leit motif for next spring's styles.

AP - Chanel may not be a regular part of New York Fashion Week, but it's certainly at home in the scene.

Fashion Wire Daily - Christian Siriano is generally regarded as the most talented American designer to have emerged from reality TV in the past half decade. Though based in New York, his spring 2011 collection shown in New York Thursday, Sept. 9, the opening day of the runway season, owed as much to Asia as his hometown the United States, the result being a hybrid and exotic take on American sportswear.

AP - New York Fashion Week brought its cutting-edge style uptown on Thursday, opening its spring-collection previews in a new location at Lincoln Center.

AP - New York Fashion Week brought its cutting-edge style uptown on Thursday, opening its spring-collection previews in a new location at Lincoln Center.

Fashion Wire Daily - Though the finalists of Lifetime's "Project Runway 8" are still a secret - the show is only six episodes into the season, well before the final runway challenge episode revealing the top three designers will air - the judge for that episode is no longer a secret. It will be Jessica Simpson.

AFP - As their eye-catching creations come under the bright lights of New York's Spring-Summer 2011 Fashion Week, the fight Thursday for designers' intellectual property rights is also turning some heads.

Reuters - Ten "Project Runway" designers -- seven decoys and three finalists -- unveiled their collections on Thursday, leaving the audience at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week guessing which was real and which wasn't.

Reuters - The U.S. recession has changed how people shop for fashion, with an eye for special pieces rather than trusty wardrobe basics, and top retail buyers say this trend is likely to last beyond an economic recovery.

AP - Jessica Simpson took her seat as guest judge at Thursday's "Project Runway" show at New York Fashion Week in a super-short, sparkly silver minidress, but she had nothing on the models, who wore an extraordinary number of hot pants.

AFP - Designers from around the world start unveiling their creations Thursday at New York's Spring-Summer 2011 Fashion Week, held for the first time at the city's prestigious Lincoln Center.

AP - A Hong Kong fashion model was busted on felony drug charges at the Burning Man counterculture festival in Nevada and crashed her rented motor home into Reno's landmark arch the next day, authorities said Wednesday.

AP - A fashion show built around the landmark fountain of Lincoln Center brought celebrities, fashion designers and some ordinary New Yorkers to their feet Tuesday night.

Fashion Wire Daily - They danced, they sang and host Jimmy Fallon killed it at the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards held Sunday, Aug. 29, at the Nokia Theater in downtown Los Angeles.