Like the towering, glittery skyscrapers that could be seen Monday night from the 65th floor of the Rainbow Room in Midtown Manhattan, the fashion life can look impressive from the outside.

Many of this year’s attendees at the Fashion Group International ’s Night of Stars upped the glam factor by dressing the part, especially this year’s “Rising Stars” honorees including Fashion Visionary honoree Iris van Herpen , the Fashion x Art winner Jordan Roth, Retail Trailblazer Jen Rubio, Media winner Stellene Volandes, Changemaker honoree Aïda Moudachirou-Rébois and the FGI Founders’ recipient Kerry O’Brien.

As conversations touched upon business highs and lows, the attendees and honorees were grounded about the churn of working in fashion. Dennis Basso, for example, made an early exit to ch

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