Photo Courtesy of Leonie Hampton for TIME.

Each year, TIME magazine publishes its list of the 100 Most Influential People – breakouts, moguls, leaders, and icons who’ve made their mark on the world. Included in this year’s select group is Alexander McQueen creative director – and School of Fashion 2012 Guest of Honor – Sarah Burton.

Burton was thrust into the global spotlight the moment that Kate Middleton stepped out in the Alexander McQueen wedding dress that she had designed. The world marveled as Kate walked down the aisle, in an exquisite creation of satin and lace. Sarah Jessica Parker wrote about Burton for TIME, describing her impossible feat: “She did the undoable. A royal wedding dress that could never live up to the impossible dream. But it did.”

There is no doubt that Burton will continue to influence fashion with her awe-inspiring creativity, attention to detail, and expert craftsmanship. And we are so excited that she will be visiting our school!!

Sarah Burton – photographed by her husband, David Burton. Photo Courtesy of Interview Magazine.

In this month’s issue of Interview Magazine, there is a massive profile on Alexander McQueen Creative Director (and one of our May guests) Sarah Burton, and – she mentions our very own Simon Ungless! The article features an interview with Burton, conducted by Sarah Jessica Parker, an ardent McQueen enthusiast. They cover the usual gamut of topics – who is the McQueen woman, the experience of working on the Savage Beauty exhibit at the Met, the Royal Wedding – as well as some things that aren’t as well known, like how Burton got her start at McQueen. This is where Simon comes in:

PARKER: You mention interns, and I know a little bit about how you first came to work with McQueen. Some people might be a little bit curious—or a lot curious—about the beginning.

BURTON: I went to a really academic school, but I always wanted to do fashion, and I was lucky enough to get in [to Central Saint Martins] and my tutor at the time, Simon Ungless, was one of Lee’s best friends, and he said, “Oh yeah, you should go and work for my friend Lee.” So I interned with Lee for a year, went back to college, and then came back. It was really lucky in many ways.

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Many of you are excited for Sex and the City 2, which comes out in theaters on May 27 — but FSD wants to give you a chance to see it before anyone else. Actually, we want to give you and three of your friends the chance to see it before anyone else.

Aren’t we nice?

If you are dying to see Carrie (yet again) in this glamorous summer blockbuster, you can enter our Sex and the City 2 contest. Just answer the trivia questions (which are about the TV show, the first movie and the sequel) below and the person with the most points will win the following:

- 4 tickets to a pre-screening of the movie on May 24 at Century 9 in the San Francisco Westfield Shopping Center.
- A Sex and the City 2 T shirt
- The Sex and the City 2 Soundtrack

As an added bonus, your three friends will also get a T shirt and soundtrack. That’s a pretty sweet deal. To enter, email the your answers to the questions below to fashionschooldaily@gmail.com by Midnight, Saturday May 22. You must be a current Academy of Art University student and live in the San Francisco Bay Area to win. Please include your name, email, student ID and major in your entry. The winner will be contacted via email with details on how to claim their prize.

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It’s official. Sarah Jessica Parker is going to be the president and chief creative officer of Halston.

The fact that she is wearing Halston on the poster of the Sex and the City 2 probably should’ve tipped us off.

“I think this is a brand new kind of business model and it illustrates how serious I am about this position,” said Parker to Women’s Wear Daily. “I think it’s wonderful to feel invested in something.”

What are your thoughts? Is this position deserving? Or could this be a celebrity/designer disaster waiting to happen? (*cough*UngaroLindsayLohan*cough*)

The movie poster for Sex and the City 2 was released today and we get a chance to see how Carrie looks whilst being blasted with tons of Photoshop:

What are your thoughts? Yea or nay? Is it Studio 54-chic? Or trashy glam? Above all, are you even excited for this sequel?

If this bubbly Fashion’s Night Out public service announcement alone doesn’t make fashion fun again, I don’t know what will…

That is a whole lotta happy. Even Anna Wintour looked delighted – and you would be too if P. Diddy was doing a little jig next to you.

And by the way, San Francisco is also having it’s own Fashion’s Night Out. Neiman Marcus and the School of Fashion are teaming up to make “fashion fun again.” Click here for the deets.