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Well, it’s a different business today. With prizes like the C.F.D.A./Vogue Fashion Fund, designers in New York have a lot more industry support than they did during Mr. Klein’s early days, and you could see the results in the makeup of the audience. It was filled with many designers and models too young to know what a Gambino was, including past fund winners, like Billy Reid, Sophie Theallet, Rogan Gregory, Phillip Lim and Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez of Proenza Schouler, the latter of whom are now on the selection committee for the prize.

When Rooney Mara, the star of  “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” announced that Mr. Altuzarra was this year’s winner of the prize, which comes with an award of $300,000 and mentoring, it actually seemed as if he had become a made man. (As Ms. von Furstenberg said, a little ominously, “Once you are in the Fashion Fund, we will protect you and continue to provide you with opportunities.”) The runners-up were Pamela Love, a jewelry designer; and Shane Gabier and Christopher Peters of the Chicago label Creatures of the Wind.

Source: New York Times (blog)

by Maryanne Salvat

Art Basel, the “catnip” for those obsessed with art and the social scene has arrived bringing with it the stress and exhaustion resulting from the attempt to cram hundreds of events into one’s social calendar in a seven day period.  And while the actual showcase technically runs from December 1-4 (what we like to call the “100 hour day”) the requisite art celebrations and inebriation have been going strong FOR DAYS- think of this as “the column that almost wasn’t.”  Much to my delight and For two years in a row (including 2011), London’s White Cube party has taken over the Soho Beach House’s pool area and Tiki bar on the Tuesday night of Basel Week- banishing even its top-tier members to the eighth floor and restaurant....