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Erdem Wins British Vogue Fashion Fund Prize; Donatella Versace’s Sunglasses Binge

Erdem Moralioglu won the first British Fashion Council/Vogue Designer Fashion Fund prize. The designer will receive $301,000 and industry mentors. [WWD]

Veronique Branquinho shuttered her namesake label due to the recession. Now she’s designing shoes for Camper. [T Magazine/NYT]

Jil Sander will show its menswear collections at Pitti Immagine Uomo instead of Milan Fashion Week for the spring 2011 season. Haider Ackermann will also show at Pitti W_Precollections in Florence. [WWD]

• In the span of ten minutes, Donatella Versace reportedly spent $5,000 on sunglasses at Artsee in the meatpacking district. [Page Six/NYP]

• See Diane Von Furstenberg’s new line of sunglasses, which she just revealed at the Vision Expo in New York. [StyleList]

Karen Elson stars in the new Ann Taylor look book. [Refinery 29]

Georgia May Jagger stars in the new campaign for Hudson Jeans. [StyleList]

• Jessica Szohr, Cory Monteith, and Dianna Agron star in the new campaign for Op, which Wal-Mart sells. [StyleWatch/People]

• In one of the last Ugly Betty episodes, America Ferrera (Betty) wears the same Victoria Beckham dress Blake Lively and Jennifer Hudson have worn. [In Style]

Ellen, a vintage shop in the Lower East Side, closed. [Racked NY]

Erdem Wins British Vogue Fashion Fund Prize; Donatella Versace’s Sunglasses Binge