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Roaming the World, Detecting Fashion (NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance)
Linda DeFranco is a fashion trend forecaster, which involves as much on market analysis as on spotting street trends.

Dog owners flock to Fashion Island (UPI)
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., May 11 (UPI) -- A high-end outdoor mall in Newport Beach, Calif., has become an increasingly popular place for dog lovers as stores in Fashion Island welcome canines.

High-end shopping goes to the dogs at Newport Beach's Fashion Island mall (Los Angeles Times)
Pooches can accompany their owners into stores, get massages, scarf down treats or take in a canine fashion show at the outdoor mall. Through the sickly sweet fog of designer fragrances, past gleaming cosmetics counters, the giant, furry critter pads across the polished tile. The prim sales clerks don't even bat an eye. They might even reach behind cases of creams and powders to pull out a ...

Fashion legend's project chews up $25m (Daily Telegraph)
THE developer behind a proposed 1000-unit retirement village promoted by fashion legend Maggie Tabberer has bled all the $25 million raised for construction without building a single unit.

In Fashion, and Baseball, What?s Old Is Still Old (New York Times)
The Athletics and the Rangers played in throwback uniforms last Sunday, and baseball purists (at least those who obsess over fashion) rejoiced. The celebration was not caused by the Oakland players wearing vests or even their butter-cream-yellow batting helmets. Rather, it was the classic stirrup socks.

Aussies to battle for NZ fashion honours (The New Zealand Herald)
Transtasman rivalry steps on to another stage this year, with news that Australian designers will show at Air New Zealand Fashion Week. So will it be a battle of tight, white lycra versus draping black wool?

Sven-Goran Eriksson goes out in humiliating fashion (Times Online)
Sven-Goran Eriksson’s anticipated final match in charge of Manchester City ended in humiliating fashion as his 10-man side lost 8-1 at Middlesbrough.