Heidi Klum proved you don't have to spend a lot to look good. At a party on the opening night of New York Fashion Week to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Macy's INC International Concepts collection, the model and Project Runway host drew admiring glances in a form-fitting, sleeveless faux leather dress from the collection, which retails for less than $120.

"It's very affordable, which is great," she told reporters. Of course it helps to have a killer figure and good genes. (She's 42, but she looks a decade younger.)

Klum, who appeared in some of the first ads for the Macy's private label 18 years ago, returned for the current ad campaign with 40-year-old model Gabriel Aubry (Halle Berry's ex and father of the couple's 7-year-old daughter). Aubry was on hand for the celebration, along with actress Christina Milian and models Karolina Kurkova, Candice Huffine, and Shaun Ross.

A limited-edition men's and women's capsule collection in honor of the brand's anniversary, available at Macy's stores this month, was on display. Women's apparel ranges from $35 to $200; men's goods range from $15 to $175. The INC brand also includes shoes, handbags, jewelry, and home goods. The latter launched last year.

Heidi Klum wore a faux leather dress ($119.50) from the Macy's INC collection.

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Heidi Klum wore a faux leather dress ($119.50) from the Macy's INC collection.

Jewelry designer David Yurman has hit black gold. We’re not talking about oil — but the new Midnight Ice Collection, a dramatic mix of rings, cuffs, bracelets, and earrings in darkened silver with gold, as well as intricate beaded stone necklaces in onyx, pyrite, and citrine that reflect fall's folkloric influence.

The collection, which retails from $650 to $3,850, features some of Yurman's most iconic silhouettes — Renaissance, Albion, and Chatelaine —in the new darker look, with black diamonds and volcanic rock. The collection’s showstopper belt buckle features 21 carats of black diamonds.

Yurman recently unveiled the brand at the Neiman Marcus NorthPark store in Dallas with Vogue market stylist Cara Crowley. “We don’t make stuff. We make pieces that meet our desires,” he told the crowd.

The collection is available exclusively at all Neiman Marcus stores through the end of the month and then at David Yurman boutiques and other stores that carry the brand.

We've heard of smartphones and smartwatches. How about a smartshirt?

Ralph Lauren has unveiled the PoloTech smartshirt, the latest in wearable technology. The black T-shirt with the yellow Polo pony trademark is made of a “second-skin” compression fabric with silver fibers woven directly into the fabric that track biometric stats like steps taken, heart rate, and calories burned. A sensor-filled black box that snaps into the shirt at the rib cage streams information to an app on your iPhone, iWatch or iPod touch to create customized workout programs with more than 10,000 combinations in the areas of cardio, strength, and agility.

Now, if it only it could exercise for you.

"This is a bridge between technology, fitness, and style that approaches wellness and well-being in comprehensive and complementary ways," Executive Vice President David Lauren said in a statement. "It will touch many parts of your life."

The washable PoloTech shirt, developed in partnership with Canadian-based OMSignal, retails for $295 and is available at RalphLauren.com, the Polo Ralph Lauren flagship store in New York, and at the U.S. Open tennis championships that run through September 13.

The technology was tested at the last year's U.S. Open, where some ball boys and a top-ranked college player Marcos Giron wore the smartshirts during practice.

The PoloTech shirt signals the relaunch of the Ralph Lauren Polo Sport line, which was discontinued in 2000. David Lauren told the Wall Street Journal that the technology could show up in ties, polo shirts, and suits in the future.

As the old saying goes, absence makes the heart grow fonder. Even though Lily Tomlin has continued to have a presence on television, including her new Netflix show Grace and Frankie, her days of being anything more than a supporting actor in movies seemed to be long gone.

But it only takes one filmmaker and a special role to make people realize what they've been missing, and for Tomlin, writer/director Paul Weitz and her starring turn as Elle Reid in Grandma are it. Elle is an aging poet whose granddaughter, Sage (Julia Garner), comes to her for help when she gets pregnant.

Sage needs money to have an abortion, but since both she and Elle are near broke, they must call in favors far and wide to scrounge up the necessary funds. It's a day-long journey that forces Elle to confront many of her personal demons, including a recently ended relationship with the much younger Olivia (Judy Greer), her testy bond with her daughter Judy (Marcia Gay Harden), and other things she thought she had left in the past.

To say that Tomlin's performance is a tour de force is putting it mildly. Weitz has gifted her with a role that plays to all of her strengths, but more importantly, one that never reduces her to a pile of clichés. Elle is brash and foul-mouthed, smokes pot, and has a checkered romantic history, but she is never defined by any one of those things.

Instead, they all add up to a perfectly complex character, a person who more often than not leads with her heart instead of her head. But she's far from unintelligent, and the decisions she makes throughout her day with Sage are ones designed to get them to their goal, even if it costs Elle some temporary pain.

Tomlin is as funny as she's ever been in the role, but it's her level of dramatic emotion in the film that carries the day. Whether it's Elle's reaction to her break-up with Olivia, the way she interacts with Sage, or her confrontation of old wounds, Tomlin never fails to impress with her range. She was nominated for an Oscar nearly 40 years ago, and she wholeheartedly deserves another nod for this part.

The supporting actors are mostly strong, though none match Tomlin's power. Garner is a rising star who only stands to get better. Greer and Harden are great in limited roles, as is Sam Elliott in an extended cameo. Laverne Cox and Nat Wolff are fine in their small roles, but they don't make much of an impression.

Grandma is the Lily Tomlin show through and through. After bearing witness to a performance like this, anybody who ever doubted Tomlin's talent should bow their head in shame.

Acclaimed novelist Larry McMurtry, whose many works are predominantly set in the old West or in contemporary Texas, will receive a 2014 National Humanities Medal for outstanding achievement at the White House next week.

President Obama will present the award to the 79-year-old author and nine other noted Americans, including food writer and activist Alice Waters, and architect/preservationist Everett L. Fly, during a ceremony on September 10. "Mr. McMurtry's work evokes the character and drama of the American West with stories that examine quintessentially American lives," the White House citation announcing his selection stated.

McMurtry is the prolific author of 29 novels, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove and The Last Picture Show; three memoirs; two collections of essays; and more than 30 screenplays, among them the Academy Award-winning adapted screenplay for Brokeback Mountain.

"I don’t remember either of my parents ever reading me a story — perhaps that’s why I’ve made up so many,” he wrote in his first memoir, Books.

The current issue of Entertainment Weekly picks the one work of fiction that best defines each state in the union, and for Texas, it's Lonesome Dove. "Everything is bigger in Texas, including this novel's ambition," the writers state, adding the "cattle-drive epic features some of the most beautifully descriptive prose put to paper."

McMurtry, who received a master's degree from Rice University in 1961 and was a lecturer of freshman English and creative writing, set several of his best-selling books, including Terms of Endearment, in Houston. The novel, which was made into an Academy Award-winning movie, was part of a trilogy that includes Moving On and All My Friends Are Going to be Strangers.

McMurtry also set three other books in modern-day Houston: Somebody's Darling, Some Can Whistle, andThe Evening Star.

He was one of the country’s most accomplished book collectors, with stores in his hometown of Archer City; Houston; and Washington, D.C. at various points in his life, until he sold most of his prized books in 2012.

The award honors an individual or organization whose work has “deepened the nation’s understanding of the human experience, broadened citizens’ engagement with history and literature or helped preserve and expand Americans’ access to cultural resources,” according to the National Endowment for the Humanities. Previous recipients include authors Joan Didion, Frank Deford, Phillip Roth, Joyce Carol Oats, and playwright Anna Deavere Smith.

“No other author has captured the spirit and imagination of his home state and the American West than Larry McMurtry,” Rice President David Leebron said in a statement. “His work speaks to people and their challenges everywhere. We are proud of Larry’s extraordinary body of work and join President Obama in celebrating his remarkable legacy.”