Simon DoonanPhoto: WireImage The CFDA will erect booths in the tents during Fashion Week to provide information on eating disorders, but Barneys’ Simon Doonan thinks diversity on the runway is a more pressing issue. “Eating is personal,” Doonan said at the Artistry of Fashion Award benefit luncheon in the Rainbow Room this [.......

Debbie PhelpsPhoto: Getty Images It’s official: Debbie Phelps inked an endorsement deal with Chico’s. Soon after she wore Chico’s to the Beijing Olympics to cheer on her son Michael, the company created a “Debbie Phelps” section on their Website to showcase the items she brought with her. But now, she’ll earn i...

Iris Strubegger at Anne Valérie HashPhoto: imaxtree We love a good comeback story, and Iris Strubegger has a great one. In 2002 the Austrian model walked for Calvin Klein and became the face of ...

Christina’s inspirational, okay?Photo: Getty Images FRAGRANCE &#8226 Christina Aguilera stopped by Macy’s yesterday to promote her Inspire fragrance. She inspired $50,000 in sales of the perfume at the Herald Square location over Labor Day weekend alone. Damn. [...

Courtesy of Target Behold! All the pretty colors of Jonathan Saunders’s collection for Target. It hits stores October 5, but you can also scoop it up early (yay!) in one of the Bullseye Bodega pop-up shops opening around the city next week. The collection was [....rest of the story....]...

We hope she wears those medals to fashion week.Photo: Getty Images Nastia Liukin will sit front row at Peter Som’s show during Fashion Week. The Olympic gymnast told WWD Maria Sharapova invited her, which we all know makes her officially cool. Sharapova’s a friend of Anna Wintour, so perhaps she’ll introduce the Vogue editor to ...

The great Vivienne Westwood and her new CD.Photo: Getty Images Hey, if musicians can make clothing lines, there’s no reason designers can’t make CDs: Vivienne Westwood will release a compilation album, Catwalk Breakdown, on September 15. British Vogue reports Westwood conceptualized, curated, and art-directed the album, [....rest of t...

Photo: Melissa Hom While many of us fled the city for the three-day weekend on Friday, Guess opened its first New York Marciano boutique in Soho. The glitzy runway-inspired label offers teeny cocktail dresses, slinky tops, leather handbags, and towering heels in a sprawling, two-story space on Broadway that reminds us of Cher’s house from C...

Michael Phelps not wearing a swimsuit!Photo: WireImage Yesterday Michael Phelps received his $1 million bonus from Speedo for winning eight gold medals. But rather than blow it on models, bottles, and $300 jeans, he’s using it to create the Michael Phelps Foundation “dedicated to growing the sport of swimming globally and encouraging ...

The unstoppable Francisco Costa.Photo: Getty Images &#8226 Calvin Klein has nearly doubled its volume to $5.4 billion. It’s expected to double again in the next five years, thanks to international retail expansion. [WWD] &#8226 Here’s a look at early sketches of ...

Carlos CamposPhoto: Getty Images Menswear designer Carlos Campos is showing his first women’s collection Monday during Fashion Week, and he’s just announced he’ll use only black models in the runway show at the Altman Building. The New York Observer received a press release about the show, which explained supermodel Iman inspire...

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Go forth and shop!Photo: Kristi Garced Rag & Bone opened its first store in the West Village today. Designers Marcus Wainwright and David Neville selected a cozy 1,600-square-foot space at 104 Christopher Street in a residential and decidedly gay area; a rainbow flag hangs proudly above Rag & Bone’s smartly styled window displays. B...

Stefano PilatiPhoto: Getty Images Last week we brought you a glimpse of the forthcoming New York Times Magazine profile of Yves Saint Laurent head designer Stefano Pilati, in which he asserts that Tom Ford — whom he took over YSL from when Ford stepped down in 2004 — [....rest of the story....]...

Aren’t they the cutest?Photo: Courtesy of People’s Revolution We didn’t think our crush on Yigal Azrouël could get any bigger. But we just learned he designed condoms &#8212 yes, condoms! &#8212 and now we’re beside ourselves. Proper Attire condoms teamed with Azrouël because they wanted to make [....rest...

Bethenny FrankelPhoto: Getty Images SKIN &#8226 Bethenny Frankel on her monthly facial at Christine Chin Facial Spa: “[I]t costs a fortune. It is a facial and a microdermabrasion which is like a surgery, it’s not fun. They should play chain saw music in the background. They take every pore you ever had and they really get it clea...

Kori RichardsonPhoto: Imaxtree Last September Toronto native Kori Richardson debuted in Milan as an exclusive for the spring 2008 Jil Sander show. Days later she flew to Paris and snagged bookings for Yves Saint Laurent and ...

Katherine FlemingPhoto: Courtesy of Krupp PR Until now Katherine Fleming has been best known for launching Tory Burch’s accessories — and we all know what a hit those were. But the 29-year-old Miami native recently left the label to launch her own namesake bag collection, hitting Barneys and [....rest of the story....]...