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SAKS FIFTH PARTY FOR "TARTAN: ROMANCING THE PLAID"

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In other fashion related news:

WWD reports:
Amid mounting speculation, the Icelandic investment firm Baugur Group confirmed Monday that it wants to acquire Saks Inc. — possibly with a partner. Baugur, the second-largest investor in Saks, said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it "expects to seek to engage in discussions" with the management of the luxury retailer. In addition, Baugur said it might make a joint bid for Saks with Milestone Resources Group Ltd., which Baugur referred to in the SEC papers as the Landmark Group. The Dubai-owned Landmark Group, which owns shares of Saks, already has had "exploratory discussions" with Baugur, the filing said.


The largest shareholder is Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim Helu who, with other family members and through Immobiliaria Carso SA De CV, owns almost 13.3 million shares, or a 9.3 percent stake.

GIORGIO ARMANI will chair next year's eagerly-anticipated Costume
Institute Gala , as the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art prepares to
celebrate the influence of superheroes on fashion history. George
Clooney, Julia Roberts and Anna
Wintour will co-chair the event on May 5, which will fete the opening
of the Met's Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy exhibition - a collection set to
include movie costumes alongside creations from the world's top catwalk
designers, such as a bikini bottoms-and-corset combination from John
Galliano's Wonder Woman themed collection for Christian Dior Haute
Couture in 2001 and a Thierry Mugler Ghost Rider-inspired biker
jacket, replete with side-view mirrors. "Today, superhero imagery has suffused
almost every aspect of popular culture," explains Andrew Bolton, a curator at
the Costume Institute. "The superhero's iconic costume of cape, mask and
bodysuit finds many fashionable permutations. But fashion's embrace of the
superhero extends beyond iconography to issues of identity, sexuality and
nationalism. Fashion shares with the superhero an inherent metaphorical
malleability which fuels its fascination with the idea and the ideal of the
superhero."

Reports in the British tabloids today suggest that supermodel Kate Moss will team up with Sadie Frost to make a cameo appearance in beloved UK soap Eastenders, to fete the return of their close friend Patsy Palmer - who plays Bianca Jackson - to the show