Ringo Starr turns 69 today. Fashion designer Pierre Cardin is turning 87. Figure skating champion Michelle Kwan is 29. Retiring WNBA star Lisa Leslie is turning 37. Author Zoe Heller is 44. FIT president Joyce Brown is turning 63. Comedian Jim Gaffigan is 43. D. Woods of Danity Kane is turning 25. Interior designer Sheila Bridges is 45. Actress Paul Deviq is turning 43. Shelly Duvall is 60. And Jessica Hahn, the former church secretary famous for her affair with televangelist Jim Bakker, turns 50 today.

Saks CEO Steve Sadove was honored at a fundraising gala for the Fashion Institute of Technology last night at Cipriani 42nd Street. Sadove was presented with an award from Michael Bloomberg ("This is an evening I like to call Saks and the City!") and guests including FIT president Joyce Brown, Olivia Chantecaille, Jason Wu (left), Carolina Herrera, Tom Florio, Fern Mallis, Robbie Myers, Joe Zee, Amy Astley, Peter Som, Stacey Bendet Eisner, Susan Fales-Hill, Dan Peres, Bill Cunningham, Scott Harrison, Steven Kolb, Saks President Ronald Frasch and his wife Georgia, former State Comptroller Carl McCall, and actress Sarah Wynter. [PMc, Wireimage, NYO, FWD]

Brown is the president of the Fashion Institute of Technology, the Chelsea school for chic boys and girls who want an entré into the world of fashion design.