Fern Mallis might want to consider party promoting as her next act because she brought some crowd to Nordstrom NYC ‘s Broadway Bar last week. Martha Stewart, Stefano Tonchi, Rickie De Sole, Bethann Hardison, Arthur Elgort, Ken Downing, Jack McCollough, Lazaro Hernandez, Nicole Miller, and Tim Gunn are a few of the faces who came out to celebrate her new book Fashion Icons 2. The collection features Mallis’ conversations with some of the biggest names in fashion such as Valentino, Victoria Beckham and Leonard Lauder. 

Fashion’s Fairy Godmother tells us what to expect from her latest conversations and how you can get your hands on an exclusive box set of the first and second volumes.

Fashion Icons 2 is filled with 15 of the conversations from your Fashion Icons series. Who were some of the dishiest and fascinating Fashion Icons we’ll be reading about in this book?
It is hard to stay who gave the “dishiest” interview in Fashion Icons 2. There is no better moment than when one of my Fashion Icons starts a story with, “I’ve never told this to anyone before….” Nothing tops my conversation with Mr. Valentino. As we talked about his family and his upbringing, he became so candid about his early struggles to break into the fashion world. In the middle of our conversation, he turned to me to say, “Never in my life have I said so many things like tonight. I’m going to tell you which underwear I am wearing.” I responded by saying, “tell us.”

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