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If ever there was a designer who could work endless magic on a single garment, it’s Burberry Prorsum’s design chief Christopher Bailey and the luxury brand’s signature trench coat.

Daphne Guinness, one of today’s most original fashion icons, is the subject of The Museum at FIT’s new exhibition, Daphne Guinness which opens September 16th in NYC and is on view until January 7th 2012.

Marc Jacobs closed the curtain on New York Fashion Week with a dance hall theme that confirmed some trends for spring and created new ones with a mix of cellophane effects, Western-style shapes and drop-waist dresses.

Season after season, it’s Anna Wintour on the front row and Marc Jacobs as the most eagerly anticipated runway show at New York Fashion Week. Enter: The newbies.

Move over Renee Zellweger, oh you of the tasteful buff dress and matchy matchy shoes. Nicki Minaj got the front row next to Anna Wintour at Monday’s runway show of your beloved Carolina Herrera.

An easy spring elegance, deceitfully simple but never sloppy, brought a bit of good clean fun to New York Fashion Week as the twice-annual round of frenzied runway shows moved into the fifth day.

Bursts of sunny, sultry citrus and sexy violet met up with muted sea tones on runways filled with flowers, both literal and reinvented, at New York Fashion Week’s spring previews as Day 3 kicked in Saturday.

In an intimate hall at the New York Public Library’s flagship, guests at Victoria Beckham’s show twice stopped in their tracks on the way to their seats for moments of silence - one for each tower - as scheduled by the designer.

Optimism prevailed on the runways for next season’s style on the second day of shows for editors, retailers and stylists. After the New York catwalks close down, shows shift to London, then Milan and Paris.

Even though iconic designer Valentino officially retired in 2008, the 79-year-old has no interest in slowing down. "Retirement is for old people," he said with a laugh Wednesday at an awards luncheon in his honor.