• Prada’s core profit rose 2.8 percent in 2009. Retail sales rose 14 percent in the year, though wholesale turnover to department stores in the United States dropped. [Reuters]
• Anja Rubik will reportedly return as the face of Fendi for fall for her second campaign with the label. [Fashionologie]
• Anna Wintour is in Florida this week watching Roger Federer play in the Sony Ericsson Open tennis tournament. [Chic Report/Daily Front Row]
• Aaron Eckhart loves fashion photography. “That’s really the only thing I think about,” said the actor, who recently shot his first campaign for Molly Sims’s jewelry line. [StyleWatch/People]
• Carla Bruni-Sarkozy wore Dior throughout most of her trip to New York this week. [WWD]
• Someone has bid $2,800 on CharityBuzz.com for a weeklong paid internship at DKNY. [Charity Buzz]
• Two models fell during the AsahiKASEI Prize Zhang Yichao show at China Fashion Week yesterday. [HuffPo]
• Jessica Alba will be the guest judge on Project Runway this Thursday. [HuffPo]
• Sex and the City 2 merchandise has started to roll out. Cosabella is coming out with a “Cutie/Bootie” thong set, which consists of four G-strings and costs $69. [Sassybella]
• A new survey claims that 54 percent of Americans prefer to pay for their purchases in cash. [WWD]