Who says you shouldn’t mix pleasure with business? Pharrell Williams, Grammy Award-winning beat master, has a new muse

It’s no secret that Asia claims a steadily ballooning luxury market, with China at the forefront. As it continues to flourish, designers are flocking to its beckon call to relish in the success its wealthy denizens have to offer. Tory Burch is just one of those designers who have reaped benefits from what Asia is sowing.

Oprah Winfrey has an extraordinary way with words and people. She also knows how to deliver the best in television and throughout her incredible career as host of her own show she has acquired a litany of celebrity friends.

The House of Marchesa and Playboy have made an interesting alliance in a charitable effort to battle breast cancer.

Spain is highly recognized for its forward-thinking designs, be it fashion or architecture. Baltus Collection, a Spanish high-end interiors and furniture design company, congratulated Edward Nieto of Nieto Design by presenting him with its first ever “Baltus Icon Award for Excellence in Design,” at their capacious Miami showroom in the Design District.

Richard Meier, the glass and steel virtuoso, whose works embody quintessential simplicity and studies in lines, is inviting the public once again into his complex mind with the fifth consecutive season of the Richard Meier Model Museum in Long Island City.

What more cogent ingredients exist than wine and shoes to impel women to gather for a cause, other than the cause itself? A cadre of Seattle-based women, socialites, and celebrities united to show support for a first annual fundraising event geared to benefit the Seattle Children’s Home, aptly titled Wine, Women, and Shoes.

For those of you susceptible to losing cell phones more often than you’d like admit, stop reading because the uber-blinged out version of Blackberry’s Curve 3G 9300 will set you back about the cost of a new Prius.

On Thursday evening, a host of celebrities enchanted a band of soldiers along with their friends and families to celebrate Israel’s 63rd Anniversary. Leggy models hit the catwalk donning threads from ten of the top Israeli-American and Jewish designers based in Los Angeles, including Dina Bar-el, Gypsy 05, Lloyd Klein, Natalia Romano, and Tal Sheyn Pure by Raw 7, to name a few.