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Anya Hindmarch, just like Calvin Klien, is among the many influential players in fashion obsessing over The High Line. She loves "the park in the sky" so much that she's selling a charitable tote at her boutique in Soho. 25% of the proceeds go to Friends of the High Line, an organization that works to maintain this transformed New York landmark.

Can we hope to attend a few fashion shows at The High Line in September? Rumors are flying, so let's keep our fingers crossed.

"I don't respect Tommy Hilfiger as a designer. Everything he did he got from me. He has nothing new to say."

-Ralph Lauren, April 1997

A week before the story went public about Elle beating out Vogue for advertising pages, Anna Wintour was spotted at Monkey Bar on 54th and Park. Drinking her sorrows away? Not exactly. She was spotted wining and dining Desiree Rogers, White House social secretary. Everyone knows Anna likes to throw a good party. Maybe she has a Vogue comeback plan?

Today, Forbes announced that Elle took the lead in advertising page count. Elle. Over Vogue!

Maybe the value of youth carries over in all aspects of fashion. Elle is 24-years-old, while her competitor is the ripe old age of 117.

Don't worry, Anna. District L knows who's better.

Sir Richard Branson takes Kate Moss for a ride. Wouldn't you like to know what's going on here?

So first we had the whole Donatella debacle last week, now this? According to his PR firm, designer Alessandro dell'Acqua appears to be breaking away from his own brand; the Men's S/S 2010 and Women's Pre-Spring 2010 collections will be produced without the designer's approval. Apparently, he was not offered the opportunity to actually verify whether the final looks shared any resemblance or conformity to his original sketches.

"The brand which carries my name has always been consistent with my style but in this case, despite of their formal assurance, Cherry Grove, the company who produces and distributes the Alessandro Dell'Acqua women's and men's collections, decided to move forward without having me, the designer, check on the quality of the product," the designer stated in a formal press release.

The tenuous stitching of the fashion industry seems to be wearing thin. The next look to come down the runway might not be so pretty...

During a recent bout in France for D-Day commemorations with the Premiere Famile Francais, First Lady Michelle Obama (who single-handedly banished the dark age of pastel pant suits known as the Bush Administration) outshined former model and French First Lady Carla Bruni at her own game. In a Narcisco Rodriguez sheath and Marc Jacobs coat, Michelle truly stands out over the equally chic but more-traditionally so Bruni.

Needless to say, District L approves.

"We are in a moment when young women are looking to be sexy in a glamorous way," said Olivier Theyskens in the July 2009 issue of Vogue.

A model presents a creation by Belgian designer Olivier Theyskens for Nina Ricci during the autumn/winter 2009 ready-to-wear collection show in Paris.

Maybe the bay winds are blowing the Folsom Street air directly into my new San Francisco apartment, but these bondage zipper-and-leather boots spoke to me when I saw them in Elle.

Specifically they said, "Give us Giuseppe Zanotti boots a spin. Sure we may be inappropriate for the summer, but since when does that matter in Frisco?"

True, Zanottis, true...

"We will know twenty years from now what fashion is in Paris. Right now, there is general confusion." -Karl Lagerfeld, April 1998

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