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"    Olivia Wilde and Vince Camuto; Photo: Getty Images   &amp;quot;Accessories are so important. They&amp;#039;re really the foundation,&amp;quot; Francisco Costa told ELLE.com last night at the 16th annual Accessories Council Excellence (ACE) Awards in New York. &amp;quot;When I start [designing] the collection, I start with the shoes. You know the character of a woman through her shoes. It&amp;#039;s very telling.&amp;quot; No wonder Costa was being honored as the Council&amp;#039;s Designer of the Year, alongside Calvin Klein Collection menswear design director Italo Zucchelli and Ulrich Grimm, creative director of Calvin Klein men&amp;#039;s and women&amp;#039;s shoes and accessories. Presenter Olivia Wilde, in a Calvin Klein Collection dress and Vince Camuto accessories, also professed to be a fan of footwear. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m a sucker for shoes,&amp;quot; she admitted.   &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t know anyone who&amp;#039;s not, really.&amp;quot; Julianne Moore, head to toe in Calvin Klein Collection, prefers handbags. &amp;quot;I think my heart belongs to bags,&amp;quot; she quipped. &amp;quot;Because I have to have my stuff.&amp;quot; All this talk of accessories inspired a few fantasies. Linda Fargo, Bergdorf Goodman SVP, fashion office and store presentation, named &amp;quot;two Verdura cuffs&amp;quot; as her dream accoutrements. &amp;quot;They&amp;#039;re black, like glossy ebony, [with] the Maltese cross on top. He [Duke Fulco Di Verdura] designed those cuffs for Coco Chanel back in the day. They&amp;#039;re just a forever chic kind of bracelet.&amp;quot; Pamela Love, meanwhile, had something a little harder-edged in mind. She fantasized about &amp;quot;entirely metal combat boots encrusted in diamonds.&amp;quot; But back to reality: A few attendees named their favorite accessory currently in their closets. For Wilde, it&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;an old leather Italian hat, like a Borsalino hat from Rome from a long time ago.&amp;quot; For Costa, it&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;an Herm\u00E8s folded wallet with my name stamped on it,&amp;quot; which was a gift from his partner. &amp;quot;It was very sweet.&amp;quot; And for Love, it&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;my engagement ring and my wedding band, [which] I designed. It&amp;#039;s white gold with turquoise, my favorite stone. My husband has the matching one.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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