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Reem Acra’s HSN Line Imminent; Fashion Toast Models at Fashion Week

Reem Acra’s new HSN line, Reem, will range from $39 to $299 and debut on September 22 and 23. “I watched HSN night after night for more than a month,” Acra said. “I would come to work very tired because I watched too much HSN.” [WWD]

Heidi Klum on Fashion Week’s new Lincoln Center home: “It just makes more sense to have it here. This is a center for the arts and Fashion Week is all about art. Bryant Park didn’t make sense. This makes New York Fashion Week more like London and Paris, in the center of the art world. There is more space, it’s fantastic.” [Page Six/NYP]

Erin Fetherston hired fashion blogger the Glamourai to help launch her new website and blog. [Glamourai]

• Meanwhile Rebecca Minkoff hired blogger Rumi “Fashion Toast” Neely to mode in her spring 2011 presentation. [Fashion Indie]

• Judith Leiber is trying to buy up her old designs from eBay and consignment stores in order to stock her roadside handbag museum. [WSJ]

• While Victoria Beckham was preparing to show her collection yesterday, David Beckham was hanging out with the cast of Jersey Shore in L.A. [Page Six/NYP]

Diane Von Furstenberg is an Internet Scrabble addict. [Fab Sugar]

Reem Acra’s HSN Line Imminent; Fashion Toast Models at Fashion Week