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Fashion’s Night Out 2010- Vintage Edition

Gearing up for tonight’s worldwide Fashion’s Night Out, an initiative started by Anna Wintour and her ever fabulous team at VOGUE as a “stimulus package” for the fashion industry; designers, stores, fashion enthusiasts, and the entire industry are preparing for parties full of fancy and shows of wonder as FNO welcomes the public to retail stores around the globe to celebrate the common love and appreciation for the art of fashion. CLOTH has chosen it’s top vintage picks for the twenty-ten edition of FNO, so put on your razzle-dazzle and sparkle with the best of ‘em at this year’s Fashion’s Night Out!

Dress for Success. Ala Moana Center’s Dress for Success Donation Drive. Honolulu, Hawaii.

REVAMP your wardrobe. REWARD working women. Ala Moana Shopping Center will play host as Honolulu’s FNO mecca as over 80 stores are participating with in-store events, fashion shows, and special promotions. To ensure that an evening of fashion and fun also supports the greater good, Ala Moana Center asks you to bring your gently used suits and career staples for donation to Dress For Success® Honolulu to the drop-off locations listed below.

A Current Affair pop-up vintage marketplace. Los Angeles, California.

Curated by Joey Grana of Scout and vintage dealer Richard Wainwright, A Curent Affair brings a more fashion-forward approach to the vintage market by uniting over 20 specialized vintage vendors from private dealers to select retailers with celebrity clientele showcasing only the best, trend driven, one-of-a-kind and designer vintage fashion.

Held in the Cooper Design Space downtown, the opening party and preview for the two-day event launches Friday, September 10, from 6pm-10pm, continuing on Saturday, September 11 from 10am-5pm with $10 admission.

Screaming Mimi’s 2nd Annual “Racks of Love”. New York, New York.

The vintage store will celebrate Fashion’s Night Out with its Second Annual “Racks of Love” event. Cocktails will be served while you peruse racks of clothing curated by NYC art, music, and fashion icons, and a portion of the night’s proceeds will go to charity. This year’s participants include Lynn Yaeger, The Drums, Richie Rich, and PAPER’s Kim Hastreiter and Mr. Mickey.

Pucci. Pucci by Vanessa Friedman book debut. Miami, Florida.

The Pucci in-store event in Bal Harbour will debut their new book, PUCCI, by Vanessa Friedman. Hundreds of photographs, sketches and candid images from the archives of the Emilio Pucci Foundation capture the breathtaking elegance and drama of this unique brand while telling the story of Emilio Pucci: a man, a fashion designer, a creative genius, a brand of worldwide renown.

For diehard Pucci connoisseurs, a Vintage Art Edition – available in just 500 numbered copies – is bound in original vintage Pucci fabrics from the house’s Archives. Packaged in a protective transparent acrylic box and  accompanied by four art prints of original drawings by the maison’s founder, Emilio Pucci- each copy will be signed by his daughter Laudomia Pucci. The XL tome book retails for $200. The Vintage Art Edition retails for $850.

Lucy in Disguise launch party. London, England.

The brainchild of sisters Lily Allen and Sarah Owen, Lucy in Disguise takes a shared passion for fashion and love of sourcing and hoarding vintage finds while bringing the highest quality of vintage labels to the customer in the street at prices that make “looking like a million dollars and affordable luxury.”

Part of British Vogue’s Fashion’s Night Out, the launch party for LID at Selfridges showcased a selection from vintage Chanel to Ossie Clark all while the pop songstress debuted her burgeoning belly bump amongst celebrities and the adoring public alike.