Cleared up: Lindsay Lohan is not designing jewelry for Pascal Mouawad, despite Lohan’s red-carpet claims stating otherwise. [WWD]
Speaking of celebrity lines, Robin Givhan employs the best analogy yet for the trend: “I can’t imagine Donna Karan saying I’m going to cut an album because her friends say she can sing karaoke.” Zing! [WWD]
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We take our hats off to Marylou Luther, Fashion Group International’s creative director, who was able to come to a summation of the Spring 2010 collections in tweet format—140 characters or less. Here it goes: “Squeeze/ease. Goth/froth. Drape/shape. Reality/romance. Transparent/apparent. Undies outed/utility touted.” But as neat as Luther’s summation is, the panel discussion that followed [...]

This year’s little movie that could is shaping up to be Precious, the inspirational tale of a supremely disadvantaged teenager in eighties Harlem. The curious crowd that dropped by last night’s Cinema Society screening for a preview included Donna Karan, Agyness Deyn, and Tommy Hilfiger, the evening’s sponsor.
Sure, it’s a big deal now. But before [...]

Designers with ties to the East End of Long Island were the guests of honor at a gala opening and reception at East Hampton’s Guild Hall on Friday night. But Marci Klein, Calvin Klein’s daughter, went unrecognized at the check-in desk. “I’m the daughter of one of the honorees,” she said. “I’m Donna and Ralph’s [...]

Style.com’s executive fashion director, Candy Pratts Price, is co-chairing one of the Hampton’s hottest summer events, a celebration of the new Ellen P. Hermanson Breast Health Center at Southampton Hospital on August 15, which has been aptly named “Heat.” The evening’s honorary chair is Stella McCartney; Donna Karan and Daphne Guinness are among its hosts; [...]

Fashion power players including Francisco Costa of Calvin Klein and Proenza Schouler’s Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCollough, along with a slew of top editors and retailers, joined CFDA president Diane von Furstenberg and executive director Steven Kolb this morning at FIT’s Katie Murphy Amphitheatre to discuss the future of New York fashion shows. “Are they [...]

Calling all retailers: The last day to register to participate in Fashion’s Night Out is August 1. As we’ve previously reported, on September 10, stores across New York’s five boroughs and around the world will be staying open late, and many of them will be hosting special events to reel in the customers. And by [...]

A longtime health care advocate, Donna Karan received an honorary nursing diploma last week from a New York nursing school. Should we expect scrubs for Spring? [WWD]
Pete Doherty’s up to his old tricks, by which we mean shooting up in an airplane bathroom and getting arrested. Good ol’ Pete. [The Sunday Mail]
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LVMH, Donna Karan, and FIT want you to bike to work, but please, no spandex. [NYT]
Miley Cyrus and Max Azria are the latest celebrity and designer couple to tie the knot, and they’ll be consummating their relationship at Wal-Mart. The co-designed junior line will be available in August; we can only hope bandage dresses for [...]

Granted, the best way to weekend in the Hamptons is by scoring a bed from a friend with a house. But if those invitations are in short supply this season, you might consider booking a room at the Maidstone. The flagship American property of Swedish company c/o Hotels, the 19-room c/o the Maidstone opens this [...]