On Friday, March 9, 2012, the third annual DVF Awards will take place at the United Nations in New York during Newsweek & The Daily Beast's Women in the World Summit held March 8-10 at Lincoln Center. The DVF Awards were created in 2010 by Diane von Furstenberg and The Diller-von Furstenberg Family Foundation to recognize and support women who are using their resources, commitment and visibility to transform the lives of other women.

Every New York fashion week is filled with its fair share of memorable performances, both at shows and at the host of after-parties. This week should be no exception. On Thursday night, the Citizens Band, spearheaded by Karen Elson and Sarah Sophie Flicker, is set to turn Milk Studios into a sexy boudoir for their burlesque-style performance in Erickson Beamon’s “Deca-Dance” presentation.

It was all about the Super Bowl for most people this weekend, but not for the models walking in New York fashion week, who were busy shuttling to and from back-to-back castings. Andrew Weir (who casts for Thakoon, Jen Kao, and Rebecca Taylor) can spot a potential star from across a room, and there were plenty of them at his ACW casting call on Saturday. “Do they even know they have these crazy bodies?” he said, referring to Lithuanian stunner Aiste Regina. But it was Roberta Narciso, an Elite agency contest winner with mile-long legs, who really caught Weir’s eye.

(NEW YORK) Brunello Cucinelli threw his hat into the public ring today. The cashmere king has requested a spot on the Italian Stock Exchange to sell a third of his eponymous company, with the help of MedioBanca and BofA Merrill Lynch as global coordinators. Cucinelli has been mulling over the idea of an IPO for almost nine months, and now is apparently as good a time as any. In 2010, the premium brand saw a 27 percent turnover while net income reached over $23 million, an 83 percent increase from the previous year.

It was only a matter of time until Filson, the purveyor of classic rugged outerwear touting a "might as well have the best" slogan, would scoop up one of the industry's finest: Richard Chai. The Seattle-centered company has tapped the New York native as their newest creative director after the designer approached the brand with a simple concept of adding modern twists to Filson classic, from the quintessential wool bomber to the traveling duffle.