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Review: Firth dazzles in radiant `A Single Man’ (AP)

AP – “A Single Man” easily could have been one of those style-over-substance visual dazzlers, coming as it does from Tom Ford, the fashion designer who revived the house of Gucci.

SI swimsuit edition puts Roddick’s wife on cover (AP)

AP – Model Brooklyn Decker landed the coveted Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover this year.

Can eco-friendly fashion can be just as stylish? (AP)

AP – Forget the animal-unfriendly fur coat and the painted-on pants made from polluting petroleum-based products. A runway show in Copenhagen on Wednesday aimed to show that “green styles” — some of them stitched in fabrics made from recycled agricultural or industrial waste — can be just as fashionable.

London opens fashion week with silence for McQueen (AFP)

AFP – London Fashion Week opened Friday with a minute’s silence for Alexander McQueen, as it mourned one of Britain’s most daring and innovative designers who hanged himself earlier this month.

Valentino’s Eco Modernism (Fashion Wire Daily)

Fashion Wire Daily – Valentino offered a large dollop of eco modernist fashion in the house’s Spring 2010 haute couture collection, presented before huge images of swaying digital trees projected on the walls of the medieval convent hospital in Paris where the show was staged Wednesday, Jan. 27.

Kelly Osbourne takes to runway for Betsey Johnson (AP)

AP – Betsey Johnson took a tour through the Wild West on Sunday, showing off a newly model-slim Kelly Osbourne as her head bandito.

Versace’s Strobe Light Chic (Fashion Wire Daily)

Fashion Wire Daily – Just when everyone in Milan has gone retro and back to their Italian craftsman origins, along comes Donatella Versace and takes us into the future.

Fashion boss who hired Lindsay Lohan leaves Ungaro (Reuters)

Reuters – Mounir Moufarrige, president and chief executive of French fashion house Emanuel Ungaro, has resigned just over two months after a widely panned collection by American actress Lindsay Lohan.

In London, Rocha shows sleek-looking men’s coats (AP)

AP – With autumn/winter fashion shows, it’s not a bad idea to toss in a few coats.

Rodarte finds strong visuals in a hazy place (AP)

AP – The bittersweet drama that played out on the Rodarte runway Tuesday reminded fashion insiders why Kate and Laura Mulleavy have become such a big deal in such a short time.