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Pitti Immagine is mostly a men’s affair in Florence, but there’s still an area devoted to women at Pitti W…

Dao-Yi Chow and Maxwell Osborne of Public School, Marc Alary, and Juan Carlos Obando are the latest designers to do…

(NEW YORK) The U.K.’s beloved mass fashion retailer Primark is finally coming stateside next year. Primark is slated to open…

Next week, Ruffian’s Brian Wolk and Claude Morais are embarking on a cross-country road trip across America. They fill us in on where they’re off to and why they wanted to take the trek across the states. Happy travels, boys!

GQ has endorsed their latest group of newbie designers: The men’s glossy has announced the winners of their eighth annual Best New Menswear Designer in America program. Who are the lucky talents this year? The Williamsburg-based label, Brooklyn Tailors, which is helmed by Daniel Lewis; Rob Garcia of avant-garde label En Noir; John Elliott’s line of all-American casual basics, John Elliott + Co.; and the Hawaiian surfer approved beach gear, M.Nii, by John Moore.

Blonde stunner Anne V. has a decade of appearing in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue and stalking the runway for the likes of Prada and Victoria’s Secret under her belt. Next up? A seat next to Naomi Campbell and Lydia Hearst as a mentor on the second season of Oxygen’s The Face, which premieres tonight at 10 p.m. EST. (Get those DVRs ready, darlings!) We met up with Anne at Modellounge X Microsoft to find out what it’s really like working with Naomi, how she deals with life in the tabloids, and to get the scoop on her first few months as a U.S. citizen.
BY EDDIE ROCHE

Another NYFW hit we simply couldn’t let you miss amid the madness of runway shows, darlings! When Town & Country’s fashion approach needed a chic-over, they called in stylist extraordinaire Nicoletta Santoro, an Italian genius who’s spent the past decade sprucing up spreads for Vogue China and other top Condé international titles. Can she whip this Hearst glossy into shape? Consider us intrigued. BY ALEXANDRA ILYASHOV

Need a little pep in your step this afternoon? It’s time for part deux of Sergio Kletnoy’s one-on-one with Boy George! Check out part one from Friday here, in case you missed it…

How do you win at the lifestyle game? Deal in Deborah Lloyd, that’s how. Since 2007, Kate Spade New York’s chief creative officer has been hard at work adding her signature flair to a stunning array of products, from hats to homewares. Today, with 300 stores worldwide, and annual revenues of over $742 million, the multi-tasking Brit is at the top of her game. We stopped by her colorful Park Avenue office to find out how she plays.
BY PAIGE REDDINGER

In 2009 Tory Burch founded The Tory Burch Foundation, in an effort to offer loans, mentoring, and education to female entrepreneurs. Since then, the foundation has given out 220 loans to women and now Burch plans to extend her helping hand even further. She and Andrew Plepler, a corporate responsibility executive for Bank of America, announced today on CBS show This Morning that there’s a new do-good partnership on the docket.