Sandra Bullock, Queen Latifah named Glamour Women of the Year
From Sara Hall

New York—Sandra Bullock, Queen Latifah and Katie Couric were three of the biggest names to be honoured at the 17th Annual Glamour Women of the Year awards on October 30th in New York, but all the honourees this year came with major accomplishments under their wings.
On the fashion front, three generations of Missoni’s were honoured -Angela, Rosita & Margherita Missoni - while former supermodel Iman is devoting herself to the AIDS crisis in Africa and was honoured for her efforts to fund antiretroviral drugs for children and working with Keep a Child Alive.
The 202,949 women of the U.S. Military were collectively honoured, as was Major Tammy Duckworth, who lost her legs during combat in 2004 in Iraq after her helicopter was shot down.
Other “Women of the Year” included Laurie David, global warming activist who produced “An Inconvenient Truth” featuring former Vice President Al Gore; Rachael Scdoris, who is legally blind and is the first disabled person to ever complete Alaska’s Iditarod dog sled race; Somaly Mam, who was sold into sex slavery in Cambodia as a child and now rescues girls from sex trafficking with her organization Acting for Women in Distressing Situations; Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, the first female presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church and Billie Jean King, tennis champion and champion of the rights of women athletes.
Meanwhile, The fashion industry’s hot ticket this week was the 23rd Annual Night of Stars, Fashion Group International’s night to honour the big names in fashion and design who set the bar for excellence and creativity in their fields.
Held at Cipriani on 42nd Street on Thursday, October 26th and attended by stylish heavyhitters like Mariska Hargitay, Gwyneth Paltrow, Emmy Rossum, Anne Hathaway, Mischa Barton, Iman and Julianne Moore this year’s gala celebrated Neiman Marcus’ Burt Tansky, who received the Superstar Award, Carolina Herrera, Stefano Pilati for Yves Saint Laurent, Consuelo Castiglioni for Marni and Ruben and Isabel Toledo were all Star Honorees, while Diller Scofidio Renfro received the Star Award Architecture.
In beauty, FGI honoured Aerin Lauder, recent Pulitzer Prize winner Robin Givhan was honoured for journalism, Timothy Shriver of the Special Olympics received the Humanitarian Award and the Fashion Oracle Award was given to stylist Rachel Zoe, known for outfitting tinsletown’s pretty young things like Mischa Barton and Nicole Richie.
Fashion Group International, a non-profit professional organization with 5000 members was founded in 1928 as an organization dedicated to raising awareness of the business of fashion and to nuture the careers of members of the fashion industry.
It was a powerhouse of celebrity style that would make a reader of US Weekly jump for joy on Wednesday, October 25th at Bergdorf Goodman’s, where the ever-stylish Sienna Miller, superstylist to the stars Rachel Zoe and Vogue’s Lauren Davis hosted a dinner party for Marchesa designers Georgina Chapman and Keren Craig.
Marchesa, British design darlings of the Hollywood elite known for their exquisite eveningwear, drew a haute crowd, including “The Devil Wears Prada”’s Anne Hathaway, Padma Lakshmi who has added a stylish presence to Bravo’s new “Project Runway” spinoff “Top Chef,” designer and Damon Dash’s sweetheart, Rachel Roy and model-turned-photographer Helena Christensen.
As if silver screen beauties dressed in dramatic, swoon-inducing gowns weren’t enough entertainment for the evening, some added night magic came in the form of hip young magician Alex Ward.