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>> Over the upcoming Labor Day weekend, David Lauren and Lauren Bush — who recently celebrated their engagement party in the Hamptons — will marry at his father Ralph Lauren's 17,000-acre Colorado ranch. The bride is expected to wear a Ralph Lauren wedding dress (David's sister Dylan Lauren wore a bridal gown designed by their father for her own wedding in June).

200 guests are expected for the festivities, which will include a picnic and softball game on Saturday, a rehearsal dinner Saturday night in Telluride, and the wedding ceremony Sunday, followed by a rodeo on Monday. A source told the New York Post, “The dress code for the wedding is black tie with a Western twist, which fits in with the romantic surroundings and both families’ American roots.”

Bush's grandparents, George H.W. and former First Lady Barbara Bush — currently at Walker’s Point in Maine — will not attend, a rep confirmed, while a spokesman for her uncle, George W. Bush, would not comment on if he and wife Laura will attend.

Bush is expected to take her soon-to-be husband's name; she recently told Harper's Bazaar: “I think it will be Lauren Bush-Lauren. I am sort of old-fashioned in that way"

>> It's been a good week for David Lauren — he celebrated his engagement to Lauren Bush last weekend on Anne Hearst and Jay McInerney's farm in the Hamptons, and his contribution to Ralph Lauren is touted in a new Fast Company profile.

So where is David headed next? Fast Company attests to "industrywide speculation" that he will eventually succeed 71-year-old Ralph as CEO. When asked if that is the case, David, who currently serves as EVP, replies: "My role has been growing every year. I'm very fortunate." He later adds: "But if I couldn't make a difference [at Ralph Lauren], I wouldn't be here. My father wouldn't want me to be here."

Ralph, too, is evasive about future company plans and David's role in them: "David is, and will be, a major person in the company. I can't say today where we're going, but David will be very important." Andrew Lauren, David's older brother who isn't involved in the company, meanwhile says of his father: "At some point he will say, 'I can't do this all the time,' and it's not out of the question that one of us would step in. But time will tell. David is succeeding where he is."

>> Oprah has scored another coup before her time as host of The Oprah Winfrey Show shortly comes to an end: Wednesday's show is dedicated to Ralph Lauren, who gives his first television interview in 20 years. It's also the first time camera crews were let into the designer's RRL Ranch in Telluride, CO. The two ride around the place in Lauren's vintage 1948 Jeep, get a rare look at his antique-filled tepees, and chat about his career and his future. Winfrey also sits down with Lauren's wife, Ricky, and children Andrew, David and Dylan (who are both getting married this year). [WWD]

>> Since becoming engaged to David Lauren last December, many have wondered what name Lauren Bush would take after marriage; the humor of potentially being Lauren Lauren is not lost on her: "Out of all the people I could've met and fallen in love with, it's just ironic that David would end up with someone named Lauren. I think it will be Lauren Bush-Lauren. That's not final, but I think it's nice to have the same name as your husband. I am sort of old-fashioned in that way." Bush's wedding dress is unsurprisingly to be designed by Ralph Lauren, and as for the size of the ceremony: "Small, we know small. We're just kind of figuring out all the other details." [Harper's Bazaar]

• Riccardo Tisci is following up his Fall 2010 campaign featuring the transsexual model Lea T. with a Spring 2011 ad campaign featuring albino model Stephen Thompson, shot by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott in black and white alongside Mariacarla Boscono, Daphne Groeneveld and Iris Strubegger; the idea came from a Robert Mapplethorpe photo of an alabaster Roman bust juxtaposed against leopard print fabric [WWD]
• 39-year-old David Lauren and 26-year-old Lauren Bush, who met at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute Gala six years ago, got engaged Friday at the museum; she Tweeted today: "Thanks for everyone's warm wishes about our engagement! I am so happy, and really enjoying every minute of it! I am truly a lucky lady!" [NY Post, @LaurenBushTweet]
• Conde Nast looks to be in shopping mode: its parent company just raised $500 million for mergers and acquisitions [All Things Digital]
• Karolina Kurkova posted a teaser photo of her and androgynous model Andrej Pejic on the set of Jean Paul Gaultier's Spring 2011 ad campaign [Frockwriter]
• Before The Sartorialist's Scott Schuman stops someone to ask to take their picture, he says, "I pretty much know where I'm going to stand, where I'm going to place them in relationship to the light, where in the street . . . so as soon as they say, 'Okay,' I'm pretty much ready to go." He continues: "I'm not much of a people person, I don't push to find out that much more [about his subjects]. I want to shoot them the way that I see them; as opposed to really creating a true essence of who they are, it's my idea of who they are." [NY Times]
• Christian Louboutin, on how extremes have changed in his twenty years in the business: "When I started, I remember people saying, ‘Oh my God, I can’t walk in that!’ It was like, three inches — they look like kitten heels now. The low cleavage I was doing was considered too sexy, but now what I call a low cleavage is much lower. It’s really very much a mental shift. I remember doing very pointy lasts. People would say, ‘I like the shoe, but it’s too pointy.’ And then the year after, it’s fine." [Style File]
• Marc Jacobs may bring his legendary holiday costume party — which hasn't happened since 2007 — back next year [The Cut]
• Anna Dello Russo is evasive on how she affords her two apartments and thousands' worth of designer clothing; her only response: "Of course, I am journalist! Then I have discount, I am privileged!" [Guardian UK]
• Peep Zac Posen's Pre-Fall 2011 lookbook, featuring "Zac-ettes" — his words (“They’re all women who have been significant for me this year”) — Hilary Rhoda, Crystal Renn, Anna Cleveland, and Leigh Lezark [Vogue]
• Reiss is planning on reissuing the dress Kate Middleton wore in her engagement photos as part of their Spring 2011 collection [The Cut]
• Former WWD Eye editor Emily Holt has been named fashion news editor at Vogue; she started last Monday [DFR]
• Leighton Meester is rumored to be the new face of Missoni [InTouch]
• Christian Lacroix is art directing and selecting the 150 Middle Eastern pieces to be featured in the Musee du Quai Branly's "The Orient of Women" exhibition, opening Feb. 8 [WWD]