Donatella Versace

By Simon Doonan Just to refresh your memory, the Fashion Group International Awards (an annual hosting gig for yours truly) is to the Council of Fashion Designers of America Awards what the Golden Globes is to the Oscars—that is, the naughty, cuter little sister.

By Irina Aleksander The honorary co-chair for the evening was Donatella Versace. And Sting, who arrived with Versace-clad Trudie Styler, was going to be performing for the gala guests. The former Police band member, it turned out, used to be Mr. ...

By Irina Aleksander Ms. Versace, dressed in a lilac-colored gown of her own design, arrived on the arm of actor (and Versace model!) Patrick Dempsey and her daughter, Allegra. (The younger Ms. Versace, 22, who is a student at Brown University, told the Transom that for her American television fix, she has been t...

By Meredith Bryan Save Our Breast Friends fundraiser, the Westside Loft, 336 West 37th Street, 8 p.m., http://boardingforbreastcancer.eventbrite.com; Fashion Group International’s 25th Annual Night of Stars, Cipriani Wall Street, 55 Wall Street, 6:15 p.m., invite only; Randy Thomas and Peter Rofe at th...

By Meredith Bryan ISN'T IT RICCI? The art and fashion mafias, lately escaped to Europe for fashion shows—much more festive, dahling, than all the doom and gloom around here—announce their return at the Whitney Museum of Art’s 2008 Gala, sponsored by wrinkle-less oddity Donatella Versace and with an aft...