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Yesterday, the fashion community was up in arms over the White House’s re-scheduling of the annual design awards. The luncheon’s traditionally held in July, and hosted by the First Lady, but this year it will land on September 13th in the middle of New York Fashion Week. That means two of the three fashion honorees, Prabal Gurung and Jason Wu, won’t be able to make it. The third, Gilles Mendel, changed the date of his runway show so he could make it to DC. Today’s news that Oprah’s headed our way thanks to Ralph Lauren sort of makes up for the scheduling conflict. In October, she’ll sit down with Lauren at Lincoln Center to talk about his life, his career and anything else that was left out of her lengthy TV special earlier this summer. The president of Lincoln Center said, “We fully anticipated that fashion and design would, over time, become a more enduring and visible part of the creative spectrum at Lincoln Center, meaning that we would have events throughout the year. That is beginning to come to pass in a whole variety of ways which will unfold over time.” The invite only gala, called Lincoln Center Presents: An Evening with Ralph Lauren, will benefit The Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Care and Prevention and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.