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When you`re hot, you`re hot–and New York designer Donna Karan is sizzling. First, after years of working behind the Anne Klein label with partner Louis Dell`Olio, Karan scored big with her own fashion collection this fall. Now she and her husband, Stephan Weiss, are heading for the White House. On Oct. 8, they`ll be among the guests of the First Couple at a black-tie evening honoring the Prime Minister of Singapore.

Katherine Hamnett, one of London`s brashest and brightest talents, put on a show at New York`s spiffy Palladium nightclub, where she urged New Yorkers to ”Think Global” while dazzling them with looks from her fall collection.

Meanwhile, Italian fashion superstar Gianni Versace is gearing up for his debut in London, where his designs will be presented at a gala show at the presitigious Victoria and Albert Museum on Oct. 2. While in London, Versace also will lecture design students from England`s top art colleges, spawning grounds of most of the fashion talent in the U.K. —