Still waiting on that invite to Donna Karan’s Parrot Cay home? Here’s what you’re missing (pictured)—plus peeks inside the digs of Jenna Lyons, Ralph Rucci, and more American fashion designers. [WWD]Or maybe you’re looking to get on Brian Atwood’s good side? Give him a Muji pen—or a pair of Naked & Famous jeans, Tom Ford [...]

It wasn’t a great night for traditional fashion books, but there were some stylish wins at the National Magazine Awards last night. New York took home four Ellies, The New Yorker and National Geographic three each, and GQ took home the award for General Excellence in the 500,000-to-1 million circulation category. [WWD]The latest Louis Vuitton [...]

Donna Karan celebrated her recently inked Yankees sponsorship deal with a visit to the stadium for a game on Friday. Hey, there are stranger places to pick up design tips. [WWD]Vicky Cristina Carine Barcelona? Penélope Cruz is the latest to take the reins at Paris Vogue, guest-editing the May issue, which focuses on Cannes. The [...]

Oasis’ Liam Gallagher (pictured)—better known for drunken brawls and fraternal strife—is launching a collection of womenswear. If his Brit pop experience is anything to go by, he’ll probably break it up and then rejoin it again several times just to keep things interesting. [NY Mag]Apparently, not every label got on the whole dot-com thing fast [...]

Parsons is launching two new master’s degree programs this fall—an MFA in Fashion Design and Society and an M.A. in Fashion Studies—an effort initiated by one of its most famous graduates. Well, almost-graduates.
Donna Karan left Parsons without a degree after she “failed draping and had to attend summer school,” she reported at a chat with [...]

More details on Madonna’s spaghetti-eating, tear-jerking campaign for Dolce & Gabbana. “She really cried,” says Gabbana. [WWD]
If Mad Men is Sex and the City for guys, then skinny ties are their flower pins. [NYT]
Jeffrey Monteiro is in at Bill Blass, and the gig starts in January. In case you’ve forgotten, “the last of four designers [...]

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 [...]