There are very few people who could bring Prince and Jennifer Lopez and Karl Lagerfeld and Vogue’s Anna Wintour together in the same room - but Donatella Versace is one of those people. The Fashion Group International – which has branches in New York and Los Angeles –  had its 25th anniversary event in Thursday night in New York City – honoring Donatella Versace, who received her award from both Jennifer (in a pale violet satin one shoulder bombshell Versace dress) and Prince, a famed Versace wearer himself. Donatella also brought her daughter Allegra Versace, who is not often in the limelight, as she’s suffered from anorexia for years, and has been in treatment at UCLA here in L.A. for some time. Balthazar Getty also joined the group – while his estranged wife, Rosetta Getty, was at a cocktail party for Vanity Fair’s Michael Roberts in L.A. Thursday night. They weren’t the only names in attendance: Italian Vogue’s Franca Sozzani flew i, as did Ashley Olsen, Debra Messing, Blake Lively, Meryl Streep’s actress daughter Mamie Gummer, Isaac Mizrahi and Kate Bosworth.

You may not be a fashion victim yourself  - but that doesn’t mean you would not appreciate Michael Roberts new book, “Fashion Victimes: The Catty Catalogue of Stylist Casualties from A to Z,” published this fall by HarperCollins. Roberts’ history in the fashion business is just momumental: he’s an illustrator and a fashion editor, and has worked for Tatler in London, for the Sunday Times, and has been both design director and illustrator of these publications. For nine years, he was the Fashion Director of the New Yorker Magazine, where he illustrated many cover designs, and published four books of fashion illustrations – but a year and a half ago, he made the jump to Vanity Fair.

The new book was feted at a party last month in New York at the Diane von Furstenburg store, and tomorrow night in L.A., Roberts will be celebrated at an elegant cocktail party at the Hancock Park home of L.A. County Museum director Michael Govan and his wife Katherine Ross, who is the head of marketing for LVMH America. Roberts is a true fashion insider, and like Bill Cunningham – the street fashion photographer of the New York Times – he’s seen it all and done it all, and still has a charming sense of humor about it all. We can’t wait to meet him – and get a signed copy of the book.