Late-night talk show host Conan O’Brien will host the telecast, which will be taped in Washington D.C.’s National Building Museum, for the second consecutive year.
Additional performers include former American Idol winner Scotty McCreery, who recently released an album of holiday music, as well as Smash star Megan Hilty and former The Voice finalist Chris Mann.
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama will attend.
This is the 14th year TNT will be broadcasting Christmas in Washington to benefit the Children’s National Medical Center.
Other honorees for Vogue‘s annual Best Dressed list include Emma Stone, Kristen Stewart, Solange Knowles, Kate Upton, Lady Gaga and First Lady Michelle Obama.
Mariah Carey didn’t just host a fundraiser for President Barack Obama recently… She also performed a new song that she wrote in his honor.
During the star-studded event at New York City’s Plaza Hotel on Thursday night, the 42-year-old part-Venezuelan singer performed “Bring It On Home,” a triumphantly inspirational ballad, similar to Carey’s hit “Hero.”
“Just finished performing Hero, We Belong Together and BRING IT ON HOME — a song I wrote especially for the event,” Carey tweeted, posting a photo of herself in a black ball gown.
Before the Plaza party, President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama attended Sarah Jessica Parker‘s presidential fundraiser at the actress’ Manhattan home.
Meryl Streep, Project Runwayjudge Michael Kors,Vogue‘sAnna Wintour and Bravo‘s Andy Cohen were among the celebrities in attendance.
Parker introduced Obama at the event, giving him a hug and kiss and saying those in attendance were gathered “hopefully, with enormous enthusiasm.” She also called Michelle Obama “radiant and extraordinary” and said she had been doing “amazingly important things these last four years.”
His creations are regularly worn by Michelle Obama and Hollywood starlets like Claire Danes, Julianna Margulies and Rachel Weisz… But Narciso Rodriguez will soon be dressing the masses.
The 51-year-old Cuban American fashion designer, who outfitted the First Lady in a stunning black-and-red dress on election night back in 2008, is launching a is launching a limited-edition collection for Kohl’s.
Rodriguez’s capsule collection, set to debut this fall, will reportedly be the first of several collaborations the retailer has lined up with noted fashion designers, according to Women’s Wear Daily.
In recent years, Kohl’s, which has a long-term contract with Vera Wang, has focused on celebrity collaborations, with lines by Daisy Fuentes, Lauren Conrad and Jennifer Lopez.
Rodriguez, who rose to acclaim when he designed CarolynBessette‘s dress for her 1996 wedding to John F. Kennedy, Jr., has since become well known for his red carpet creations.
He last partnered with eBay on an eight-piece collection in 2010.
She’s one of the most popular Hispanic fashion designers in the industry… And, now Isabel Toledo is getting due recognition for her inspired work.
During a presentation of Toledo’s Spring-Summer collection this evening in Miami—her first major show in 10 years—the 50-year-old Cuban designer and her husband/collaborator Rubén Toledo received Lifetime Achievement Awards from Fashion Group International at an event sponsored by Vanidades magazine.
Toledo’s runway show was a treat for Miami fashionistas because the designer, feeling they’ve lost their essence, stopped doing them altogether.
“There was no intimacy, no connection between the woman [the model wearing the clothes] and the audience.” she told The Miami Herald in a recent interview, “It was all about who was sitting in the front row.”
Despite that 10-year hiatus from doing runway shows, the “designer’s designer” has continued to see tremendous success.
“We now have a four-story building and a staff,” says Toledo, a favorite of first lady Michelle Obama, who wore a Toledo original to her husband’s presidential inauguration. “And we do it all with fashion. All of it made in America. All of it very high quality. The big houses are shocked that we’ve been able to do this.”
Toledo’s latest collection is inspired by the Caribbean and the women of that region. Toledo showed feminine, flowing dresses in colors taken from the tropical scenery of the Caribbean, including the blue hues of ocean and sky.
Along with keeping her designs accessible to all women, regardless of their income, Toledo and her husband also believe in helping the next generation of fashion designers. The dynamic duo fund the Isabel and Rubén Toledo Scholarship.
“It means a lot to us that a design student can get to go to school because of this,” says Rubén, who can’t help but be in awe of his wife’s work.
“It’s like being a scientist,” he says. “She keeps having breakthroughs.”
Breakthroughs that have resulted in this much-deserved Lifetime Achievement Award.
