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Today, the CFDA Incubator welcomes its newest group of initiates: Antonio Azzuolo, Arielle Shapiro of Ari Dein, Doug and Ben Burkman of Burkman Bros, Christian Cota, Emanuela Duca, Rick Hendry and Marc Daniels of Isaora, Luis Fernandez of Number: Lab, Reece Solomon of Reece Hudson, Timo Weiland and Alan Eckstein of Timo Weiland, and Maayan Zilberman and Nikki Dekker of The Lake & Stars. The selection committee of industry leaders, including Style.com’s executive editor, Nicole Phelps, carefully picked this group of ten young designers to follow in the footsteps of the inaugural dozen designers who kicked off the program in February 2010. We have watched the careers of current all-stars in the Incubator, like Prabal Gurung and Bibhu Mohapatra, flourish during their short time in the “fashion frat,” and here, we check in with the newest pledge “class II” before they move into 209 West 38th Street.

It’s a Versace moment. Donatella’s new collection for H&M, set to hit stores November 19, has sent the blogosphere into a near-unprecedented tizzy, and her Spring ‘12 collections (for women and men) were standouts of the season. In the first issue of Style.com/Print, Tim Blanks sits down with the designer to find out what’s behind the dramatic resurgence of the label and how she’s harnessed the Versace history for a new age. Spoiler alert: A new crew of young British collaborators (including Christopher Kane) and fans (like Lady Gaga) who revere the Versace classics of the eighties and nineties both play parts. With her fast-fashion collection, Donatella set out to revive those classics. “All these people reacting to what was in the archives—Gaga, the people in London, the young kids in the office—they’re 25 years old, they’re obsessed,” Versace told Blanks. “They don’t know. So we did a best of Versace for H&M, a greatest hits, from the beginning until now.”
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