I don't know if anyone else really noticed, but for a while Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week looked more like the American Booksellers Convention. What with every other day a top designer was hosting a fete for some new tome or another. If you weren't promoting a book this season, you were not on the charts party wise.

Authors Nina Garcia and Tommy Hilfiger. Photo by PatrickMcMullan.com

At the top of the week, Tommy Hilfiger and ad whiz George Lois, with the help of Conde Nast Media Group, celebrated their collaboration on the hefty tome, "Iconic America: A Roller Coast Ride Through the Eye-Popping Panorama of American Pop Culture" with an over the top party at that iconic bastion of art, The Museum of Modern Art, that more then lived up to the lengthy title.

Deborah Harry - a pop icon if there ever was one - preformed with Blondie mates Chris Stein and Paul Carbonara in front of an audience of fashionistas and such contemporary figures on the pop and social landscape. In the fashionable mix: Martina McBride, Ciara, Sean Lennon, Irina Lazereanu, Lindsey Buckingham, Alicia Witt, Lydia Hearst, Laura Bell-Bundy, Miri Ben-Ari, Keith Robinson, Fabian Basabe, Tamara Feldman, Katrina Bowden, Sherri Saum, Tinsley Mortimer, Manny Perez, Aaron Yoo, The Misshapes, and Mark Ecko.

The book inspired by Tommy Hilfiger's passion for Americana, and George Lois' provocative visual power, presents a mosaic of over 400 iconic and iconoclastic images uniquely juxtaposed on its pages from the melting pot of the American experience. The images compel Americans to question who we are, what we stand for, and perhaps, where we should be heading. Not only does Iconic America celebrate the snap, crackle, and pop of American popular culture, it offers a poignant and compelling commentary on America.

Available November 6, Tommy Hilfiger will donate $5 to the U.S. Fund for UNICEF for every copy of the book Iconic America and each item of the capsule collection sold at Tommy Hilfiger stores. Fifty percent of that will go towards helping the children of the world and fifty percent towards educating American children about the world.

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Elle Fashion director Nina Garcia, who teamed with my pal Tim Gunn as a Project Runway judge, added the title of author to her impressive résumé. Her first book, "The Little Black Book of Style", is a one-stop guide to cultivating a sense of personal style. Lucky Nina had the biggest guns in the fashion world falling all over themselves to toast her.

Diane Von Furstenberg tossed a big bash for her and Giorgio Armani hosted a posh dinner in her honor at Gemma in New York City. An invite from Armani always pulls a pretty crowd and this little dinner was no exception with all the hauterflies and their beaux in fine feather and finery in attendance: Rachel Roy, Zani Gugelman, Olivia Chantecaille, Bettina Zilkha, Tinsley Mortimer, Vanessa von Bismarck, Marjorie Gubelman…well you get the picture.

DVF, still on the book publicity rounds, hosted a book party at Bergdorf-Goodman's for Charlie Scheips and his book for the Council of Fashion Designers of American (CFDA) called "American Fashion". This big thick coffee table book that chronicles American history as seen through the eyes of fashion down through the last century.

Practically everyone was there to celebrate this landmark study of the impact of fashion on American, indeed world, culture including Dennis Basso, Carolina Herrera, Peter Som, Arnold Scaasi, Dina Merrill, Douglas Hannant, Michael Kors, Gilles Mendel, Nicole Miller, Lazaro Hernandez, Jack McCollough, and – doesn't she ever stay home - Rachel Roy.

Diane should get some kind of Literary Lion Award or something as she continued to promote the books of her pals. She threw not on but two parties for author Bob Colacello's latest endeavor, "Out".

First there was the big cocktail affair that Interview Magazine, W Hotels, and Diane co-hosted at Milk Studios for several hundred of Bob's passionate followers of his celebrity chronicles in Interview and Vanity Fair. Interview biggies Ingrid Sischy, Sandy Brant, and Anita Sarko greeted such a diverse mix that included Princess Alexandra of Greece, Calvin Klein, Sandy Gallin, Blaine Trump, Mary Boone, Chris Makos, and Samantha Perelman.

With hubby Barry Diller by her side, Diane hosted a lovely intimate dinner for Bob at her townhouse with the close friends Agnes Gund, Samantha Boardman and Aby Rosen, Carolina and Reinaldo Herrera, Ian Schrager, Shelley and Vincent Fremont, and Pepe Fanjul.

I don't know how she does it – run a huge company, head up the CFDA, put together a collection and still have time to organize a round of parties. Kudos Diane!

One local writer who is smiling big these days is Nick Pileggi. His new movie "American Gangster," of which he is executive producer has major Hollywood and NYC buzz after a private screening. Word is Russell Crowe, who stars in the flick, makes this one hot ticket! I am sure I don't have to remind you that Nick is America's expert on crime and the Mafia. He wrote one of the best movies ever made for Martin Scorsese, "Goodfellas". Nick and his writer director wife, Nora Ephron, once regulars on the Hamptons scene, now spend more time in Hollywood and love their bicoastal lifestyle.

I haven' t seen my invite yet - but I'm sure it's coming for Patrick McMullan's latest publishing foray, "Glamour Girls", which is due out later this month. Can't wait to see if my picture made the cut! Word is the party is at The Whitney Museum – doesn't anybody just do drinks at Elaine's anymore? Will tell you all about it next week.

Til then, Cheers!