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The Battalion Online offers access to news from The Associated Press The WIRE provides continuously updated news coverage from one of the world’s oldest, largest news services via The Battalion's web page. ■ A comprehensive, up-to-the-minute news report combining the latest AP stories with photos, graphics, sound and video. - Headlines and bulletins delivered as soon as news breaks. • U.S., World, Business, Sports, Science, Technology, Weather, Arts, and Special Sections. http://battalion.tamu.edu NEW YORK (AP) — This may come as a surprise to his music fans, but Sean "Puffy" Combs is a con tender for a top honor in the fashion industry. That's right, fashion. Combs, better known as music mogul Puff Daddy, is one of three new menswear designers nominat ed for an American Fashion Award. The winner will be announced June 15 by the Council of Fashion Designers of America at a gala at Lincoln Center. As a representative of hip-hop culture. Combs has set a tone for fashion that made it a natural for him to move into the garment industry. He is chairman and CEO of the line called Sean John, after his first and middle names. The collec tion is targeted for males 12 to 40 and is designed by a professional staff. In its first year, the line, including jeans, shirts and T-shirts, had sales exceeding $32 million. "Men's fashion was boring, to be honest," Combs said. "And it still is. I just felt it was unfair for us to not have fun like women get to have. They get to be fabulous and have some style and have an outfit they can put on and feel good about. We're gradually taking men into the zone of being able to feel beautiful, but still be able to be a strong man about it." Combs knows a thing or two about fashion. 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In 1993, he signed « b u t the prog: Arista Records to distribute' |\r 0 rd from Jt Bad Boy label, launching a setf 1 of releases that went platinum