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Style Icon and reality star Nicole Richie had been keeping busy in her role as mom and wife until recently becoming a mentor on NBC’s Fashion Star, the reality series that affords designers the opportunity to launch their collections in three of America’s largest retailers: Macy’s, H&M and Saks Fifth Avenue. Let’s hope that Richie’s ardor for lesbians with great fashion sense bodes well for Fashion Star contestant Kara Laricks, an out lesbian whose Draped Tie Dress ignited a bidding war between Saks and H&M on last week’s show.

In our effort to ever-expand SheWired's vigilant coverage of lesbian news, culture, and entertainment stories, we’ve turned our attention to the Twitter sphere. Get ready for a round up of the most important tweets by lesbians or other lesbian-friendly people we find entertaining or just plain funny. Here's Katy Perry, Dolly Parton, Nicole Richie, Fortune Feimster, Sarah Silverman, Zooey Deschanel, Demi Moore, Pauley Perrette and Kirsten Vangsness!

Among the honorees were out bisexual actress and Mildred Pierce star Evan Rachel Wood, Naomi Watts, Viola Davis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Jennifer Aniston, Freida Pinto, Dreamworks exec. Stacey Snider, Elizabeth Olsen – who received the Calvin Klein Collection Emerging Star Award and Barbra Streisand who received the L’Oreal Paris Legend Award. There were also plenty of women on hand to pay homage to the honorees including Amber Heard, Laura Dern, Robin Wright, Chelsea Handler, Nicole Richie, Reese Witherspoon and Oscar winning director Kathryn Bigelow.

There is a new poll on Twitter via the application “What Poll?” that begs the question: Who is your all time favorite celebrity to follow on Twitter? Who has the best tweets!?  Among the suggestions in the poll are some of our all-time favorite ladies. We’ve highlighted them for you below. Check them out and, after doing so, cast your vote! Our favorite ladies in the finals include Pink, Ellen Degeneres, Tyra Banks, Kim Kardashian, Klohe Kardashian, Kylie Minogue, Snooki, Marlee Matlin, Nicole Richie, Sandra Bernhard and more!

NBC’s new reality competition series Fashion Star will search for the next big brand in fashion. Executive producer and host of the show Elle Macpherson joins celebrity mentors Jessica Simpson, Nicole Richie and John Varvatos for the series that will give 14 unknown designers a chance to win a multi-million dollar prize to launch their collections in three of America’s largest retailers: Macy’s, H&M and Saks Fifth Avenue. Among the line-up of designers is out lesbian Kara Laricks. She designs androgynous clothing for men and women, “inspired by her love of menswear and an avant-garde Japanese design aesthetic.

DJ Sam Ronson has reportedly moved on from ex-girlfriend Lindsay Lohan and friends, family, and the press are all crazy about Ronson’s new girlfriend, Erin Foster.

Out designer Kara Laricks has yet another Fashion Star success under her belt! In the Week 7: Mentor’s Choice episode, Saks Fifth Avenue buyer Terron Schaefer purchased Kara’s designs.

Out designer Kara Laricks has yet another Fashion Star success under her belt! In the Week 8: What’s Your Campaign episode, Saks Fifth Avenue buyer Terron Schaefer purchased Kara’s Tuxedo Shirt, but only after winning a bidding war with H&M buyer Nicole Christie.

NBC’s hit fashion competition series Fashion Star has named out designer Kara Laricks as the next big brand in fashion! As the winner of Fashion Star Season 1, three of the country’s largest retailers – Saks Fifth Avenue, Macy’s and H&M – purchased $6 million of capsule collection designs from Kara.

NBC's new reality series Fashion Star premieres Tuesday, March 13, and it's not to be missed! Besides featuring designers who create clothes for everyone, not just supermodels and Hollywood stars, there's one designer who's got something very different to offer.

It's not embarrassing that you know every Madonna song ever written, it's embarrassing that everyone else doesn't.

Angry gays and celebs like Drew Barrymore, Rose McGowan and Ricki Lake take to the streets over Prop 8. Grey's goes straight but Eden Riegel and Tamara Braun engage in heavy snogging on All My Children, Kate Winslet as Catherine Deneuve, The L Word looks killer, Mandy Musgrave wows at POWER UP and Bridget McManus is legally off the market.