Media-Whore D'Oevres



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"'Budget? I don't want to cry when I get in the car, that's my budget,' said Mary-Louise Parker on Thursday night at what is billed as the world’s biggest sample sale, the Seventh on Sale Gala that coincides with the annual CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Awards dinner. Kitted out like the courtyard of a medieval castle complete with fake torches, the 69th Regiment Armory was filled to bursting with deeply discounted designer merchandise and eager shoppers in the form of Valentino, Ralph Lauren, Giambattista Valli, Iman, Eve, and Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen—all of whom were doing their part to raise money for the fight against HIV and AIDS. Kate Moss bought a pair of sunglasses and a Fendi fur. 'It's so me,' she said ... The CFDA's executive director, Steven Kolb, revealed that later this weekend, Diane von Furstenberg, Kate Spade, and Proenza Schouler's Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCollough will all be among those working the sales floor." (Style)

"... Hundreds of fashion's deep-pocketed crème de la crème gathered to shop to fight HIV and AIDS at the 69th Regiment Armory, which was transformed into a nearly 22,000-square-foot courtyard of a medieval castle, complete with a bazaar bursting elegantly at the seams with designer merchandise.Naomi Campbell, meanwhile, surprised some reporters when she agreed to be interviewed. 'I remember coming to the first one of these if I am not mistaken,' the supermodel, also in McQueen, managed to say, until she was snatched away by Kate Moss for a cigarette break outside." (Fashionweekdaily)

"Check out MIXER, a new night of live experimental video and audio at Eyebeam, 540 West 21st St. The quarterly event premieres Saturday, November 17th, at 9 p.m.. This week: 'Brother Islands (Places to Lose People)', a multimedia theater, audio and video piece followed by an afterparty with the Jesse Stiles 3000." (Paper)

"It’s been a tough autumn for US chief executives. The bosses of two of Wall Street’s behemoths have been toppled and canny Dick Parsons at Time Warner had the good sense to formalise his long-flagged departure. Other, once imperial, titans are hanging on by their finger-tips. The fall of the US’s corporate princes makes riveting drama for the rest of us. But, over the past few weeks, I’ve also had several reminders of another transformation afoot in many of the country’s executive suites. Among the chiefs who still have their jobs, many seem to be rethinking what it means to be a boss and coming up with a model that moves a lot of power a lot further down their organisations." (FT)