Eye | Franca Sozzani To Receive Legion of Honor | Cartier Brand Film | Donna Karan Supports Nurses | Macy's Flower Show

Franca Sozzani

Vogue Italia editor-in-chief Franca Sozzani will receive one of France’s highest civilian awards on March 13, when she bcomes a Knight of the Legion of Honor. Sozzani will be honored with a lunch at the Italian embassy before being awarded her medal by French President Nicolas Sarkozy. via WWD

Always outspoken, Sozzani had a few choice words on her blog about yesterday’s International Women’s Day celebrations.

Rather than the celebration of mimosas, this should be a day of protest, a silent but concrete protest, in the name of which we should all support the countless associations struggling in defense of women. Supporting the needs of other women is more significant than routinely giving them good wishes.

Donna Karan

Fresh off a plane from Haiti, American designer Donna Karan was at Kent State University in Ohio Monday, serving as the keynote speaker for the Kent State College of Nursing’s annual Driving the Future conference series.

This year’s conference explored an integrative approach to incorporating self-care and mindfulness in a balanced personal and professional life. Conference attendees examined the impact of mindfulness on features of health care workplace environments, attitudes of the individuals working in them, and benefits to the patients who experiences congruence of those factors.

In September 2010 Karan’s Urban Zen Foundation began a collaboration with Kent State, in which 30 students in Kent State’s accelerated nursing program participate in the ‘Care for the Caregiver’ program each semester. The focus of the program is to address issues like nursing burnout and job-related stress.

Long a believer in yoga and self care, Donna Karan is using the resources of Urban Zen to stem America’s nursing shortage by helping nurses focus on stress reduction and wellness for themselves, so they connect more with the caregiving passion that they have and stay with their chosen careers. via Kent State Edu

Cartier’s Mesmerizing Iconic Brand Film

Few of who have seen L’Odyssée de Cartier, are in awe of the 210-second film that shares the history of Cartier as a panther (apparently a jaguar) sprinting from St. Petersburg to India and finally returning to the Smart Sensuality company of Shalom Harlow in the Place Vendôme home of Cartier. The cinematic visual effects are emotionally spectacular, brand inspiration at its best. Visit L’Odyssee de Cartier website.

Macy’s Flower Show

For the first time ever, the Macy’s annual flower show will move outside the Herald’s Square store, tunder a 5,000-square-foot tent on Broadway Plaza. The flower show called ‘Brasil: Gardens in Paradise’ opens March 25 for its two-week run. Concurrently, the store will run a Brazil promotion.

Other Macy’s stores will also participate with their own flower shows in Philadelphia, Chicago, Minneapolis and San Francisco. See website