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Last night, Threads of Color kicked off its yearlong calendar with a Salute to America soiree, held at the Bernstein Display Showroom in midtown. Founded by Ionia Dunn Lee, a former ESSENCE fashion editor, stylist and current LIM College professor, the non-profit Threads of Color awards college scholarships to aspiring fashionistas (like last night’s winner, fashion merchandising student Fallon Davis) and celebrates diversity in the industry. Student models ambled around the patriotically themed space in designs by the likes of Carmen Marc Valvo, Tracy Reese and Tommy Hilfiger, the latter of whom will be given a lifetime achievement award at Threads of Color’s big runway show this September. For more information, visit threadsofcolor.org, and check out our gallery for more photos from the event!

Last night at the 45th Annual YMA FSF Geoffrey Beene National Scholarship Awards dinner, Chic wanted to know just how well fashion insiders knew the event’s namesake, Geoffrey Beene. So, we asked: What did Mr. Beene study before fashion?

“It’s like we’re in a movie!” exclaimed Meredith Melling Burke at John DeLucie’s haute spot The Lion last night, as editors gathered to toast theOutnet.com and its director, Stephanie Phair. It wasn’t just the hidden room—”just walk straight through the Basquiat,” the doorman instructed—or the velvet curtain that further alienated this crowd from reality. It was the snow, falling almost embarrassingly cinematically while the looming (potential) weather crisis went relatively ignored.

Lisa Salzer of Lulu Frost’s Transformations

Très interessante. The Swiss fine art photographer Walter Pfeiffer was somehow convinced to shoot his first ever global campaign for a fashion brand. The lucky recipient? Pringle of Scotland, whose Spring campaign features the Scottish actress Freya Mavor. Discuss!

Is Kate Moss pregnant?

Why did designer Wes Gordon feel one untied shoelace away from being escorted out of the famed St. Regis? He fills us in.

Obsessions: Babi Ahluwalia

Despite warnings of a Gotham City blizzard, the Waldorf Astoria was buzzing last night for the 45th Annual YMA FSF Geoffrey Beene National Scholarship Awards Dinner hosted by Mary Alice Stephenson. The glitzy soiree honored over 100 scholarship-toting students along with Manny Chirico, Jeff Kantor, and Visionaire founders Cecilia Dean, Stephan Gan, and James Kariliardos.