Designer Loses It When Dupre Crashes Show

Human rights activists not happy about it

(NEWSER) - Gulnara “GooGoosha” Karimova may be the daughter of a hated dictator who once boiled an enemy alive, but that didn’t stop organizers from allowing her to unveil her new fashion line during a show at New York’s upcoming Fashion Week. Karimova, 39, is a high-ranking official in the government of her father, Uzbekistan President Islam Karimov. US diplomats once described her as “the single most hated person in the country,” but on Sept. 15, she’ll be touted as the jet-setting designer of the “Guli” fashion line. More»

Not interested in fashion? Check out the falling models

(NEWSER) - Wondering what you’ve missed so far from Fashion Week? We’ve rounded up five trends to keep your eye on—check out examples of each in the gallery:

• Wearability: Designers from Derek Lam and Vera Wang to, yes, even Marc Jacobs and Rodarte are offering clothes the average person might actually wear, reports the Wall Street Journal .
• Comedic interlude: Models are falling.

Fashion designer found in apparent suicide

(NEWSER) - British fashion designer Alexander McQueen, 40, is dead of an apparent suicide just weeks before the unveiling of his Fashion Week show in Paris. He is believed to have been found hanged in his London apartment, the Mail reports. His Twitter feed, which has since been removed, included a post a few days ago referring to his "F-----g awful week," the Wall Street Journal reports. More»

NY Post's newest scribe is Ashley Dupre

(NEWSER) - The call girl whose assignations with Eliot Spitzer helped cost him the New York governor's office has a new gig: advice columnist. For the New York Post , of course. In today's debut effort, Ashley Dupre answers a parenting question, then gets into the good stuff.

• "Are there telltale signs a man isn't happy in his marriage?": No actual answer, but some advice: "Ask yourself, when was the last time you did something to make your husband feel loved, special and appreciated?"

Designers are tamed by recession fears

(NEWSER) - Thanks to the recession, “disciplined good taste” reigned on the Paris runways this week, leading Bloomingdale’s fashion director to dub the season “terrific, from a commercial point of view, but not so much so that it’s safe and boring.” Guy Trebay begs to differ. “If success is measured by distance traveled, then this has been the Paris season that ran the gamut—as Dorothy Parker once famously sniped about Katharine Hepburn's acting range—from A to B,” he writes in the New York Times. More»