In between a Q&A with Dries Van Noten at FIT and a stellar presentation from Vena Cava at Milk Studios yesterday, I managed to squeeze in some time with iconic fashion designer Norma Kamali (who has been crafting collections for over 40 years) at her uptown store. Salesgirls and Kamali alike were getting into the spirit of Fashion's Night Out, hawking signature Kamali goods at sample sale prices ($100 a pop); not to mention Kamali meanwhile took to feeding me lavender shortbread cookies and champagne with lavender soda (no complaints here). The creative force behind three separate collections -- the Norma Kamali Collection, N-K for Walmart, and the soon-to-debut Norma Kamali for eBay (which has its own domain at NormaKamalibay.com) -- will showcase the fruits of her labor with a presentation at the Apple store in Soho this coming Thursday, September 17, at 11am.. Open to the public, the show's titled "The Democratization of Fashion" (and egalitarian it will be: there are no seating assignments, nor will there be a rope or guest list of any kind).

Considering Kamali is a bona fide iPhone fanatic (she calls the device "life-changing"), not to mention in conjunction with the three new aforementioned collections, Kamali will debut her own iPhone App come Thursday, I probed her for her favorite apps currently taking up space on her phone. "If I only had it here you would see I have 10,000. I'm a maniac; I have so many. I have a lot of favorites. My favorites are the ones where I can draw and do fun things. I'm basically a paper and get your hands dirty kind of a person, but I'm loving that too. I also like the Brian Eno app. I also like the flute that you can play. And other people around the world can hear you and you can hear other people. I also have NewsAddict; it's great. You open it up and it has every newspaper and every medium in news. Say you want to read Page Six of the NY Post; say you want to read Maureen Dowd, The Huffington Post, The Daily Beast, CNBC. And I love Scrabble. When I'm leaving here and the stress is so insane that I need to tune out; I go right to Scrabble and I tune out. If I can't sleep at night because my mind is going all over the place, I just get Scrabble, and by the third word I can't spell anymore, so I go right to sleep."