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Amazon has been working to ramp up the fashion aspect of its business for some time now and the e-commerce giant's latest efforts see it setting up shop in NYC.

Marc Jacobs and his multitude of tattoos get profiled in New York Magazine's September issue--he says "Who cares?" if he regrets them later in life. Perhaps the best one of all is Jacobs's super-meta cartoon version of himself, complete with mini-versions of his other actual tattoos... um, just look at it. {The Cut} Rihanna's third collection for River Island is here! Aside from the shiny knee-length basketball shorts and a Where's Waldo jumpsuit (ONLY YOU can wear those, Ri. Please understand.), the crop tops and maxi skirts are pretty great. {Grazia} Calvin Klein's former boy toy Nick Gruber discusses his troubled past with New York Magazine--and it almost makes us look past all those brawls he keeps getting himself into. {The Cut}

Fashion crowd, meet the 7 train. In a few years, that will be the closest subway to the Hudson Yards, which will soon be the official location of New York Fashion Week--at least if Diane von Furstenberg, Steven Kolb and Mayor Bloomberg have anything to do with it.

Count Vogue Japan as another fan of Hedi Slimane for Saint Laurent. The glossy styled Karlie Kloss in a bohemian glam look from the designer's spring collection for its June 2013 cover. {Fashion Gone Rogue} Lauren Hutton is apparently writing a book full of "juicy anecdotes" like the time she met Bill Clinton or traveled through Africa. If it's anything like her recent The Edit interview, we obviously can't wait. Especially for all the curse words. {Page Six} Kering has expansion on the brain. The luxury conglomerate has acquired jewelry company Pomellato, just a few months after taking a majority stake in Christopher Kane. {WWD}

As has increasingly become the case with political figures (female ones in particular), Christine Quinn's appearance and style are a hot topic of discussion--both in the press and among her colleagues.

The CFDA team has been pretty busy lately. Tuesday night was the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund event and last night, they feted a huge Sandy relief sale, which is open to the public today until 8pm. Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Diane von Furstenberg, Anna Wintour, Steven Kolb, and Tory Burch were in attendance. Even before arranging the sale, the CFDA put together an online auction, through which you can bid on things like a week long stay at Diane von Furstenberg’s Harbor Island home, lunch with Gwyneth Paltrow and Mario Batali, and attending a fashion show with Anna Wintour and the Vogue editors. Today's sale came together pretty serendipitously.

Since the hurricane hit, New York and New Jersey's hardest hit neighborhoods have been inundated with compassion from those more fortunate in weathering the storm. The donation of choice? Gently worn clothes straight from their wardrobes. But while their hearts were in the right place, their gifts ended up amounting to an out-of-hand problem unto itself. Avoid the Cher Horowitz approach to helping. Here's how you can really make an impact for Sandy relief right now--from what clothing items are still needed to what organizations you should follow to donate time and money.

It looks like Vanity Fair is going to have some sort of NYC tech power players feature in a forthcoming issue. Perhaps even a cover considering the

The controversy over Ralph Lauren's Chinese-produced Team USA uniforms has raised a bigger question in the fashion community: Is making affordable clothing in America a feasible option for any designer? That was the hot issue for some of the designers and fashion personalities who attended the Project Runway 10th Anniversary Party held in Chelsea last night--and while most agreed that the Team USA uni production ideally should've happened domestically, the empathetic laments about the cost (and feasibility) of producing locally proved to be a common thread. Alice + Olivia designer Stacey Bendet touched on Lauren (whom she called "pretty friggin' awesome") being unfairly singled out for this "misshap"

Salvatore Ferragamo has tapped Kate Moss and Karmen Pedaru to front their F/W campaign. {WWD} Ann Curry gave a tearful goodbye speech on Today this morning, but her morning show style will forever be remembered. {HuffPo} Patricia Field was a little less than classy last night at Issac Mizrahi's interview with Derek Blasberg when she proceeded to shout her opinion on a few comments he made. {NY Post} Joana Avillez illustrated a guide to fashion's biggest personalities. Click through to see cartoon Tavi Gevinson and Daphne Guinness. {Refinery 29}

NY1 traffic reporter and Complex Magazine dating columnist Jamie Shupak went to DC this weekend to see what Washington’s “Nerd Prom” is all about. While her and her boyfriend, New York Times media reporter Brian Stelter didn’t attend the actual White House Correspondents Dinner (long-standing NYT company policy) they did hit all the weekend’s festivities. It’s Friday evening and I’m standing at the bar of The New Yorker’s party at the W Hotel with New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly. We’re playing the first of many rounds of “New York – DC – Hollywood” which is exactly as it sounds. You point to a person in the room and based on their outfit, guess where they’re from. I warm him up with an easy one. “Dark blue satin,” I say, gesturing to a woman nearby who looks like she just walked off the floor of the Senate. He laughs to avoid answering. (The Commish is so politically correct.) He then looks down at his own getup – head-to-toe black of course – then back up to me. With a shrug and a smile he smirks, “New York.” This game, just like the intersection of DC political types, New York media, and Hollywood celebrities, is both fascinating and funny.

The CFDA's recent decision to relocate their offices from the garment district to downtown Manhattan left some garment district residents and fashion industry members feeling abandoned and disappointed. However, the CFDA's work to build up the fashion industry only seems to have increased this year. From negotiating with the international fashion industry leaders to finally solve the scheduling conflict to issuing fashion week health guidelines, to supporting the Model Alliance, 2012 looks to be a pretty pivotal year for New York's fashion industry. Today's story in WWD laying out the city's new fashion initiatives pretty much confirms that.

New York Fashion Week's next home, following a less than well-received tenancy at Lincoln Center, might be a place called the Culture Shed. The Culture Shed, despite sounding like a bad nightclub, will be a "sprawling, modern center" within $15 billion westside development project the Hudson Yards, and it was the subject of a press conference with Mayor Bloomberg this morning. Coach confirmed their plans to open a global headquarters there, WWD is reporting. According to the trade, the complex will also house "office buildings, residential and retail space, a 150-room hotel, 14 acres of public space and a sprawling, modern center called the Culture Shed, which, according to Bloomberg, 'will eventually' host Fashion Week."

It's baaaack. Fashion's Night Out, aka Halloween for fashionistas, will take over the city's stores for the third year in a row. Mayor Bloomberg, Vogue, the CFDA and NYC & Company (the city's marketing and tourism org), announced today that the third annual Fashion's Night Out will be held on Thursday, September 8, 2011. No word yet on what kind of extravagant promotions Vogue and the city will dream up to top last year's over-the-top FNO which included the city's largest public fashion show, but we're sure Anna and the Mayor will work something out. And if this year's Black Friday numbers are any indication (sales totaled $45 billion, up from $41.2 billion last year, according to the National Retail Federation), Americans are ready to shop.

Just two weeks ago, Nanette Lepore held another rally to save the garment district. For decades, the garment district has been shrinking and struggling to survive as production goes overseas. Today brings word that Bloomberg might just save it. The Mayor's office rolled out six new initiatives to grow the city's fashion industry and ensure its place as a fashion capital. “New York City is the fashion capital of the world, and the factors that drive that success-–the creativity and expertise of our talented workforce–-present us with competitive advantages we want to capitalize on,” said Mayor Bloomberg in a release. “Industry leaders like Diane von Furstenberg, Macy’s CEO Terry Lundgren and others helped us develop these seven initiatives to nurture the next generation of fashion talent in New York City and to help make it easier for fashion entrepreneurs to make turn their ideas into reality.” For the past year, FashionNYC2020, a city-funded initiative chaired by LF CEO Richard Darling, Diane von Furstenberg, Macy's CEO Terry Lundgren, Theory CEO Andrew Rosen, and Gilt Groupe CEO Kevin Ryan, examined the challenges facing the $55 billion industry. With the help of fancy consulting firm Bain & Company, the New York City Economic Development Corporation conducted surveys and interviews with more than 500 industry professionals to determine the best strategies to develop and keep new talent in NYC. Unsurprisingly, FashionNYC2020 "identified New York City’s fashion industry as a potential area of growth over the next decade." As per the release, here are the six strategies the city has come up with to grow the fashion industry in NYC:

After living here for a while, you sometimes forget how many amazing people live and work in New York City. When we walked into City Hall for the Fashion's Night Out kick-off press conference today, we went through security with Lisa Mayock from Vena Cava. Then, we saw Anna Wintour walking ahead of us and Alex Wang suddenly appeared behind us. A few minutes later Marc Jacobs, Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez walked in. After we were seated inside the press conference room, the following people (in addition to the aforementioned) surrounded the podium: Prabal Gurung, Zac Posen, Phillip Lim, Tracy Reese, Kenneth Cole, Donna Karan, Carolina Herrera, Tommy Hilfiger, Thakoon Panichgul, Marcus Wainwright from Rag & Bone, Francisco Costa, Vera Wang, Tory Burch, Steven Kolb, Linda Fargo, the Mayor...and after a few moments, we noticed tiny Mary-Kate Olsen peeking her head out behind Marc. Then, unfortunately, we died and are thus unable to report anything else about Fashion's Night Out. Just kidding - sort of.

This September doesn't just mean Fashion Week, fall and my 25th birthday (yikes!), it also means the first ever Vogue Night Out. Mayor Bloomberg and A

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