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Cipriani Wall Street was packed with industry’s biggest talents for Fashion Group International’s 26th annual Night of Stars. Host Simon Doonan embraced evening’s “Storytellers” theme. He opened program with rundown of evening’s honorees by means of a comic tale that involved all of them helping Oscar de la Renta open a fictional Parisian strip club called Le Sexy J’Adore. Oh, that was fun!

Every year, Night of Stars gives out honors the top guns in design, from fashion to architecture to beauty. Oscar de la Renta, whose career has spanned past six decades, took home the “Super Star” award last night. While fashion designers Michael Kors and Frida Giannini, famous hat designer Stephen Jones and jewelry designer Victoire de Castellane, known for her baubles for Dior, all were “Star Honorees.”

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Grace Coddington, the creative director at Vogue, co-presented the award to de la Renta with another Vogue editor, Hamish Bowles. Other award recipients included Kenneth Cole for the “Humanitarian Award,” Renzo Rosso of Diesel for “Corporate Leadership,” Clodagh in architecture, Paula Wallace of Savannah College of Art and Design for “Sustainability” and Catherine Walsh in “beauty”. Television station Bravo was awarded the Lord & Taylor Fashion Oracle Award.

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