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PARIS (AP) — As the seriously style-minded switch their focus from Milan to Paris, the first day of menswear collections showed that even the haughty world of fashion can have a giggle.

Comedians Seth Meyers and Colin Jost, dressed head-to-toe in Valentino, punctured the stiff-upper-lip in the first of five days of back to back shows with humor, as powerful editors scrambled around to see who had the better seat position.

Meanwhile, some demonstrators certainly didn't see a funny side to fashion week — protesting the "Just Cavalli" scent logo for ripping off an ancient religious symbol.

Here are the highlights from the day of spring-summer 2015 shows including show reports from Valentino, Raf Simons and Carven.

VALENTINO

Is Valentino loosening up?

This season's show, inspired by "outsiders and freethinkers," saw designers Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli try to break out of their couture-conscious — sometimes stiff — mold.

Along the pared-down catwalk of wooden planks, 52-looks in myriad styles were showcased — including silken baggy pajamas pants, psychedelic flower prints, 60s-style ethnic suede jackets and even a dressed-up 4-piece suit littered with retro prints of a comic book.

The strongest looks came from the simplest ideas: a fitted satin burgundy and gray suit that shimmered rock 'n' roll, or a luxuriant caramel 4-piece suit that was beautifully free-flowing.

Though the loosening of gear is welcome, details such as rather odd butterfly appliques and the repetitive use of camouflage made it feel sometimes like Chiuri and Piccioli were still finding their menswear voice.

The soundtrack, a version of "A Walk on the Wild Side" delivered with distinctly un-wild pan pipes, summed up the collection quite nicely: we're wild but conservative at heart.

MEYERS LAUGHS AT FASHION

Though Meyers cut a fine style with a fitted navy blue silk and wool Valentino suit to the heritage house's spring-summer 2015 show, he still felt a little nervous.

"I'm a comedian in the world of fashion... I don't know if I have any street cred, but I hope I'm blending in," he said with a twinkle in his eye.

The 40-year-old, who found fame as Saturday Night Live's head writer and has, since February, hosted NBC's "Late Night with Seth Meyers," said that he doesn't single out the fashion world for mockery — but poking fun at this industry was like "shooting fish in the barrel."

Meyers saved his best innuendo for his SNL successor Jost who hovered behind him in a funky blue denim Valentino suit.

"(I watch his show) like a deposed king watches the younger person who took his throne. Oh, so angry," he added, smiling.

RAF SIMONS GOES JAPANESE

Raf Simons looked East for spring-summer with yet another strong and inventive menswear collection, mixing contrasting street styles with Japanese vestimentary codes.

Models with wispy Asiatic fringes and brightly colored sneakers sported long jackets in sanitized white, navy and black with shawl-collar lapels that borrowed from the traditional kimono.

The Belgian designer's penchant for contradictions was on full display. Sporty vests appeared with the delicate patterns of 19th Japanese woodcut. Elsewhere, singlets with swirling waves conjured up associations with the famed Japanese old-master painter Hokusai.

As the collection advanced, buttons at the waist nodded to Japanese belted fastenings, while a couple of models had skin-tight sweaters whose patterned sleeves made the models look like they had Japanese-style tattoos.

There's always a coherence and progression in Simons' shows, from beginning to end.

PROTESTORS SAYS ROBERTO CAVALLI LOGO COPIES RELIGIOUS SYMBOL

Paris fashion week always has its fair share of politics.

This season, it was Roberto Cavalli who was in the line of fire, with Wednesday seeing dozens of campaigners in support of the Sufi branch of Islam protesting outside the Italian designer's Paris boutique in opposition to his "Just Cavalli" scent logo.

The stink, according to the placard-holding protesters from the Sufi community, is that the Cavalli design — a graphic of 2 C's joined together with spiky edges — is a rotated version of an ancient Sufi symbol for peace, purity and the name of god and that it destroys the sanctity of their symbol.

The Maktab Tarighat Oveyssi Shahmaghsoudi group says it holds the copyright for the logo and has registered a cancellation action against the Cavalli design with European and U.S. trademark offices.

Cavalli reject the claims and says their symbol is "clearly very different."

CARVEN

Carven's acclaimed designer Guillaume Henry trod the line between proletariat and classical chic for spring-summer.

Road-worker bands were reimagined as sanitized on optical lumber-jack check shirts cut with the clean minimalism which the French designer has used to revitalize the 70-year-old house.

Contrasting sporty bands featured horizontally on buttoned-up office-shirts or paneled sweaters, while working-class-style zipper turtle-necks and ruffled elastic bands broke up the classicism of an airy gray suit. (Henry said he was inspired by the theme of classical versus industrialization in filmmaker Ken Loach's works.)

There was the odd flash of orange or purple, breaking up the mute palette — but restrained and light was the name of the game.

American pop star Joe Jonas added a small splash of excitement to the show, with the 24-year-old former Disney star turning up at the last minute in a trendy Carven sweatshirt reading "Eye Hope 2 C U."

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INDEPENDENCE, Ohio (AP) — David Blatt doesn't consider himself an Israeli coach, European coach or NBA coach. He doesn't favor offense over defense.

"I'm a basketball coach," he said.

Blatt, who spent the past two decades winning titles across Europe, was introduced on Wednesday as the new coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers, a team in transition and one preparing to select first in Thursday night's draft.

Blatt led Maccabi Tel Aviv to the Euroleague championship this season, and the 55-year-old guided Russia to a bronze medal at the 2012 London Olympics.

He was hired last week by the Cavs, who spent 39 days looking to replace Mike Brown, fired following a 33-49 season. After speaking to as many as 11 candidates, the team selected Blatt.

"I have won everywhere I've been," he said, "and I plan on doing the same here."

Born in Massachusetts, Blatt, who played at Princeton, is the first coach to make the move from Europe to the NBA.

"I know I'm carrying the torch, and I hope like hell I don't drop it," he said. "I don't plan to."

Blatt arrives at an interesting time for the Cavs. They own the No. 1 overall selection in the draft and are expected to make a strong push to sign LeBron James, who opted out of the final two years of his Miami contract on Tuesday and is a free agent.

Blatt believes he's inheriting a quality roster and believes the Cavs are capable of "doing some special things."

Cavaliers general manager David Griffin said Blatt was hired after an exhaustive interview process. He said Cleveland's third coach in three years embodies everything they were looking for.

"He's a guy who has passion, creativity and intelligence," Griffin said. "And as a coach he's able to adjust in ways that I think make him special. But he lives those things as a man, as well. Because of that, players all feel him in a very powerful way. David is an authentic leader. I believe very strongly that's what drew all of us to him."

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — As the world was judging Uruguay's Luis Suarez for biting a player in the World Cup, his teammates, coaches and fans in his soccer-crazy country defended the star, blaming the foreign media, his Italian opponents and uneven treatment.

World Cup organizers scrambled Wednesday quickly decided on a punishment before Uruguay plays Colombia Saturday in the round of 16.

"We have to resolve it either today or tomorrow," FIFA disciplinary panel member Martin Hong told reporters Wednesday. "It's our duty to see justice done."

A day after he tangled with defender Giorgio Chiellini, Suarez was coping well, according to the Uruguay football federation president.

"Luis is fine. He's been through 1001 battles," Wilmar Valdez told the online site Tenfield.com. "We all know who Luis is and that's why we have to defend him."

The bite — just before Uruguay scored the clinching goal to eliminate the four-time champion Italians —will now test FIFA president Sepp Blatter's often-stated commitment to "fair play, discipline, respect."

Blatter, who was in the crowd for the Uruguay-Italy match at Natal, has pledged a zero tolerance for the darker side of the game.

Many are questioning where that leaves a player like Suarez, who has a history of disciplinary problems including separate bans of seven and 10 matches for biting opponents in the Netherlands and England.

Valdez said Uruguay officials were sent a video of the incident by FIFA, and would respond with footage showing Suarez — a striker for Liverpool and last season's player of the year in England's Premier League — as a victim of Italian aggression.

"When he falls, several substitutes insult him on the ground and some members of Italy's staff even came out of the bench to try to hit him," Valdez said, suggesting FIFA could investigate Italy.

Uruguay also will cite Brazil star Neymar getting only a yellow card in a clash with a Croatia player, Valdez said.

Uruguay federation board member Alejandro Balbi, who is Suarez's lawyer, blamed European media reporting.

"This happened because there have been campaigns launched by the media in England and Italy," Balbi told Uruguayan radio Sport 890.

Suarez's teammate Diego Lugano agreed.

"The British media has a vendetta against Suarez, and everyone knows that," he said. "It's obvious the vendetta sells newspapers in England, otherwise you wouldn't be here. Uruguay and Italy played yesterday. On Saturday Uruguay plays Colombia, I don't know why there's a British journalist asking about Suarez."

Lugano said he had seen "much more violent plays" than the bite at the World Cup.

"It was a normal taunt in football, and the world press ends up talking about something totally trivial," he said.

FIFA's case against Suarez — announced early Wednesday — will be managed by a Swiss lawyer, Claudio Sulser, chairman of the FIFA disciplinary committee. A former international forward himself, Sulser has worked for four years at FIFA, first as head of its ethics court.

Sulser can choose to judge the offense within the scale of typical red-card incidents: A three-match ban may then be appropriate, banishing Suarez at least until the World Cup final should Uruguay advance that far.

The maximum penalty would be a ban of 24 international matches.

FIFA can also choose to ban Suarez for up to two years. That would cover club and international games and would ruin a widely speculated transfer to Barcelona or Real Madrid.

Suarez and the Uruguay football federation had until 5 p.m. local time Wednesday (4 p.m. EDT/2000 GMT) to present a documented defense.

Completing the case ahead of Saturday's match could be complicated if Suarez appeals. That challenge could go direct to the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Switzerland for an urgent and binding ruling.

However, one option open to FIFA and Sulser to avoid that scenario is that a suspension of "fewer than three matches or of up to two months" cannot be appealed, according to FIFA rules.

Already, one of Suarez's sponsors said it was "reviewing our relationship with him."

"We will not tolerate unsporting behavior," 888poker said in a Twitter message.

Last month, the firm announced a global endorsement contract with Suarez, a poker enthusiast.

adidas, which also has Suarez as a client and is FIFA's longest standing World Cup sponsor, said it was monitoring the case.

Meanwhile, Suarez was criticized by a Uruguay football great Alcides Ghiggia, the last survivor of the team which defeated Brazil to win the 1950 World Cup.

Suarez "plays well but he has done things that are not normal for a player nor for a soccer game," Ghiggia told The AP. "I think FIFA can sanction him."

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AP Sports Writer Rob Harris in Rio de Janeiro and Associated Press writer Leonardo Haberkorn in Montevideo, Uruguay, contributed to this report

HONOLULU (AP) — A former aspiring actor and model withdrew another lawsuit Wednesday claiming an entertainment industry figure sexually abused him, a move that prompted one lawyer to say the four cases were built on lies and character smears.

Without explanation, attorneys for Michael Egan III filed papers in federal court in Honolulu voluntarily dismissing the case against former network TV executive Garth Ancier.

Los Angeles attorney Louise Ann Fernandez released a statement on behalf of Ancier saying the case against him was reckless and "grounded in lies."

"Just as this case imploded when the facts became known, any further legal maneuvers or gimmicks will fail because unsupported statements, falsehoods and character smears have no place in any court," the statement said.

Mark Gallagher, Egan's Hawaii attorney referred questions to Florida attorney Jeff Herman, who didn't immediately respond to requests for comment.

Three weeks ago, Egan withdrew a suit against David Neuman, another former TV executive. Two other lawsuits by Egan are pending against "X-Men" director Bryan Singer and theater producer Gary Goddard. Both men have denied the allegations.

Egan alleges that Singer abused him several times during trips to Hawaii in 1999, when Egan was 17. Egan also accuses Singer of abusing him earlier in California as part of a Hollywood sex ring. Similar allegations were made in the other lawsuits.

Ancier never visited the estate in Hawaii where Egan claimed he was molested, Fernandez has said.

In a motion filed in May to dismiss the case, attorneys for Ancier argued that the lawsuits were an attempt to "shake down Hollywood executives" and "part of transparent effort by a non-Hawaii resident — who did not even set foot in Hawaii himself during the time in question — to avail himself of Hawaii's extended statute of limitations."

Egan sued in April under a Hawaii law that suspended for two years the statute of limitations in civil sex abuse cases. Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie last week signed a bill into law extending that window for another two years.

The Associated Press does not typically identify alleged victims of sex abuse but is naming Egan because he has spoken publicly about his case.

Federal courts can handle cases when parties are from different states.

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