Reuters - Celebrity fashion designer Anand Jon was convicted on Thursday of raping and sexually assaulting aspiring models as young as 14.

Fashion Wire Daily - For women, the night was bigger than the Oscars, the Emmys and the Grammys combined. If you combined all those awards with the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, then you might have a sense of what it felt like to attend the 19th Annual Glamour Women of the Year Awards, held Monday night, Nov. 10, at Carnegie Hall, one of New York's architectural splendors.

Reuters - All ears were listening to President-elect Barack Obama's victory speech this week but fashion-watchers were looking closely at his wife Michelle's dress -- and the verdict was not so good.

Fashion Wire Daily - The influencers and tastemakers in the world of accessories came together in New York for the 12th annual ACE Awards on Monday, Nov. 3, to toast designers and brands including Nicolas Ghesquiére for Balenciaga, Stella McCartney, Cate Adair of "Desperate Housewives" and Banana Republic.

Reuters - Luxury Italian fashion house Versace expects that strong demand from a still resilient Asia will help it ride out the current global economic turmoil, its CEO said on Wednesday.

AP - The Obamas' first official appearance as first family-elect will be long remembered for many weighty historic reasons, but it could also signal another new beginning: An entirely different fashion sense in the White House.

Reuters - Pierre Berge didn't know the first thing about fashion when he sat down one day in 1958 to watch the first Christian Dior show under the atelier's new youthful designer, Yves Saint Laurent.

Fashion Wire Daily - While there are some people in the world who profess to hate chocolate, there's still very little arguing with the New York Chocolate Show, now in its 11th year, and the sheer joy a show-goer gets from its feats of chocolate engineering both edible and otherwise - "otherwise" being the all-chocolate fashion show, featuring several former "Project Runway" designers, that kicked off the three-day chocolate trade show in New York on Thursday, Nov. 6.

Reuters - Italian luxury brand Versace put on a glitzy and glamorous first fashion show in China on Thursday a stone's throw from Beijing's central Tiananmen Square, raising more than $100,000 for charity.

Fashion Wire Daily - Warmer, happier days are here again - at least, that is the hope that most customers are harboring for next spring - to be mentally and physically uplifted after a rocky fall. That is the spirit that the Calvin Klein Spring 2009 collection designed by Calvin Klein and ck Calvin Klein creative director Kevin Carrigan hoped to evoke, which he presented at Calvin Klein headquarters in New York on Thursday, Nov. 13.

E! Online - Victoria's Secret brought the sexy to South Beach Saturday at their annual fashion show, featuring Angels' Heidi Klum, Alessandria Ambrosia, Miranda Kerr, Karolina Kurkova and more supermodels strutting their stuff.

Fashion Wire Daily - Rogan Gregory, the designer behind eponymous men's and women's wear label Rogan, as well as Loomstate and Edun, is a man whose primary design goal is to strip things down to their most essential state while still creating something new - and most importantly, to add something raw and real to the process and the end result. Gregory calls this "soulful minimalism."

AP - Victoria's Secret's angels have descended upon Miami Beach.

E! Online - As if Miami wasn't hot enough already, Victoria's Secret will be steaming up South Beach this weekend with their annual fashion show Saturday night.

AP - An up-and-coming fashion designer who has worked with A-list celebrities was convicted Thursday of sexually assaulting seven girls and women, some of them aspiring models lured to Los Angeles with promises of jobs and stays at luxury hotels.

AFP - Jurors has begun deliberations in the rape trial of celebrated Indian-born fashion designer Anand Jon Alexander, who faces a possible sentence of life in prison if convicted.

Fashion Wire Daily - She's not quite sixteen yet, but Miley Cyrus is already at the top of the world.