Arthur Becker

Those stories and more in our daily news roundup.

• Nordstrom has partnered with Topshop to bring the British brand's clothing into 14 of its stores throughout the country by September. Each store will set up dedicated spaces for merchandise from Topshop and Topman. [WWD]
  

• Rag & Bone will present its Spring 2013 collection in London after its first store there opens this September. "It's exciting to present a collection for the first time in our home town and for it to take place in our own store feels really special," said designer David Neville. [Vogue UK]
  

• A group of young women who protested the use of Photoshop outside the Teen Vogue offices Wednesday say they were given the cold shoulder when brought inside to meet with the magazine's editors. "It was kind of shocking how rude they were to us," one said. [The Cut]
  

• Happy birthday wishes to Natasha Poly, who turns 27 today. [Fashion TV]
  

• Friends of Vera Wang and her husband, Arthur Becker, say they believe the two separated because of incessant fighting. [Page Six]
  

• Billy Reid, Loomstate, Yigal Azrouel, and Shipley & Halmos are among the CFDA designers who partnered with the New York Mets to create products celebrating both organizations' 50th anniversary this year. [Fashionologie Inbox]
  

• Moda Operandi's Taylor Tomasi Hill hit Sao Paulo Fashion Week with film director Bettina Santo Domingo last week, resulting in a gorgeous video in which Tomasi Hill styles blogger Bia Perotti in clothing from the totally covetable Brazilian line Isolda. The video is set to Electric Guest's This Head I Hold. [Fashionologie Inbox]

Photo: The finale of Rag & Bone's Spring 2012 show.

Vera Wang has separated from her husband, Arthur Becker, after 23 years of marriage.

A spokeswoman for Wang said the couple "mutually and amicably agreed to separate. They remain devoted parents to their two daughters."

Becker, a businessman, has not commented on the separation. He advised Wang as she built her business and is said to have advocated her expansion into mass market categories. He resigned from his position as CEO of NaviSite in 2010 and has become more involved in the day-to-day operations at Vera Wang over the last few years. A friend of Wang's said, "They will not let this impact the running of the company. They have worked too hard to build it up."

The couple married in New York City's Pierre Hotel in 1989, when Wang was just shy of her 40th birthday, and have since had two daughters, Cecilia and Josephine.

In a 2006 New York Magazine profile, Wang said she "was the girl who nobody thought would ever get married."

"I was going to be a fashion nun the rest of my life," she said. "There are generations of them, those fashion nuns, living, eating, breathing clothes. But Ralph said, 'Get yourself a husband and a family.' Anna said, 'You have got to get a family going here. You've been single for three decades now.' So I married my husband. There are days I'm not happy I did it, but there are days I'm thrilled — I mean, he has always understood my nature, which is that it’s always about product."

Photo: Wang and Becker attended a White House state dinner in honor of Chinese president Hu Jintao in January, 2011.