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Sunday February 24th, 2013

New York and London Fashion Week Recaps, Charlotte Free Defends Terry Richardson, and the Red Carpet Newbies You Need to Know
Week In Review

New York and London Fashion Week Recaps, Charlotte Free Defends Terry Richardson, and the Red Carpet Newbies You Need to Know

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The Best of New York Fashion Week: Overwhelmed by all the fashion week coverage out there? We’ll make it easy. Check out our 10 favorite collections, the 13 most critically acclaimed shows, and the top 10 trends you need to know.

Listen While You Look: Get the full ambiance of New York fashion week with our top 15 tracks from the runways.

And Don’t Forget About London! Click away to see our 10 fav collections, the critics’ darlings, and the biggest fall trends from the fashion week across the pond.

Kim Kardashian Lands a DuJour Kover: The magazine’s co-editor Keith Pollack on what it was like to work with the pregnant star and whether they had problems pulling clothes for her.

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Sunday February 3rd, 2013

Editors’ Fashion Week Essentials, Bloggers Faking Their Swag, and A Full SAG Style Recap
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Editors’ Fashion Week Essentials, Bloggers Faking Their Swag, and A Full SAG Style Recap

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Our Fashion Week Essentials: Around here, February means one thing: Fashion Week. Here’s the list of what our editors can’t live without during these seven days of chaos.

The Couture Shows: Speaking of fashion shows, spring couture wrapped and we gave you six couture designers to watch. Plus, if you’re feeling crafty, get inspired by all the best DIY beauty looks from the runways.

Desperation Looks Good On Them: Have bloggers stooped to the point of faking VIP status by buying their own swag and passing it off as designer gifts?

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Sunday January 27th, 2013

The Most Influential Personal Style Bloggers, Takeaway Trends from Pre-Fall, and Everything Inauguration
Week In Review

The Most Influential Personal Style Bloggers, Takeaway Trends from Pre-Fall, and Everything Inauguration

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Inaugural Fashion Roundup: The big style news from this week’s presidential festivities was Michelle Obama’s (second) Jason Wu inaugural ball dress, but there were plenty of other great style moments, too. We also led you through the rest of the FLOTUS’s ensembles, including Thom Browne for the public Inauguration appearances, Naeem Khan at church, and Reed Krakoff at the swearing-in.

First Lady Fashion History Lesson: Take a look back at 50 years of Inaugural style from the First Ladies of yore, plus learn why a FLOTUS’s hairstyle matters more than you think.

The Reigning Style Blog Stars: We compiled all the data, did our research, and ranked the most influential personal style bloggers right now. Did your favorite streetwalker make the cut?

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Sunday January 20th, 2013

How to Copy the Original Carrie Bradshaw’s Style, Pre-Inauguration Fashion News, and Everything Golden Globes
Week In Review

How to Copy the Original Carrie Bradshaw’s Style, Pre-Inauguration Fashion News, and Everything Golden Globes

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When Life Gives You a Crash, Make Crashionista: After some technical issues with the site this week, we made a temporary blog to house all of our fashion news.

Carrie Bradshaw is Back: To celebrate the premiere of The Carrie Diaries, we compiled the original Carrie’s most iconic looks, and showed you how to recreate them in a modern way.

Obama Inauguration Style: With the big day fast approaching, we picked the 10 up-and-coming designers we’d like to see the FLOTUS wearing this term, but our prediction for her outfit on Monday is more succinct: A repeat. Of course, we can’t forget about the Obama girls, who are getting more attention for their style choices these days. And in more immediate news, Michelle Obama made a big change by cutting bangs for her birthday this week.

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Sunday January 13th, 2013

Where to Sell Your Clothes Online, an Analysis of Downton Abbey Fashion, and a Missoni Heir Goes Missing
Week In Review

Where to Sell Your Clothes Online, an Analysis of Downton Abbey Fashion, and a Missoni Heir Goes Missing

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Renew Your Closet: We compiled the best sites for retailing your clothes online, so you can put that new money toward your updated, 2013 wardrobe!

Learn from the Best: J. Crew’s Mickey Drexler revealed some secrets of his success at this week’s WWD CEO summit.

Fashion Family Tragedy: In unfortunate news this week, a plane carrying members of the Missoni family went missing, amid rumors of a possible kidnapping. However, the company has decided that the menswear show must go on, so it is still scheduled for Sunday in Milan.

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Sunday January 6th, 2013

Fashion Name-Dropping in Rap, Why Lauren Sherman Left Her Condé Nast Job, and Fashion Industry Hangover Cures
Week In Review

Fashion Name-Dropping in Rap, Why Lauren Sherman Left Her Condé Nast Job, and Fashion Industry Hangover Cures

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Name Dropping is Cool Again: We put together a list of rap’s most well known fashion shout outs from over the years.

Lauren Sherman Tells Us Why She Left Lucky: Fancy magazine job or not, Sherman provides some serious life advice on building your career and following your instincts.

You Wanna Be On Top?: Karlie Kloss was Vogue‘s top model of 2012, but we put together a list of our favorite catwalkers from 2012, too.

The Morning After: In honor of what many consider National Hangover Day, here are the best post-NYE hangover tips from the fashion set. (Useful for any time of the year!)

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Sunday December 23rd, 2012

Romeo Beckham Models for Burberry, Saying Goodbye to Gossip Girl, and the Breakout Style Stars of 2012
Week In Review

Romeo Beckham Models for Burberry, Saying Goodbye to Gossip Girl, and the Breakout Style Stars of 2012

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Romeo Beckham Makes His Modeling Debut: While we thought Romeo Beckham was uber cute in the spring Burberry ads, some people had their feathers ruffled by it.

Life According to Karl: If Karl didn’t talk about it, it’s almost like it didn’t even happen. Review the best Karl Kwotes of 2012.

Farewell Gossip Girl: It’s really, really over, and some of us aren’t quite ready to let go. Check out our ode to Blair Waldorf and our salute to Serena van der Woodsen‘s gravity-defying cleavage. Also, why did the show end with the same song that closed out Sex and the City?

Get to Know the Newest Street Style Stars: Sure, we all know ADR by just her initials, but there’s a new pack of street stylers in town.

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Sunday December 16th, 2012

We Recap Art Basel, Share the Magic of Meggings, and Go Backstage with the Rockettes
Week In Review

We Recap Art Basel, Share the Magic of Meggings, and Go Backstage with the Rockettes

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Fun at Art Basel: Really pretty people partied around really nice art (and in some cases, with stray cats). Moncler, Valentino, and Chanel were some of the fashion brands that hosted fantastic parties.

Shopping Slow Fashion: We picked 10 brands that are doing the sustainable and slow fashion movement right.

High Kicks in High Style: We got backstage access to some of Santa’s most glamorous helpers: The Rockettes. They spilled the deets on their beauty secrets and we reviewed 85 years of Rockette costumes.

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Sunday December 9th, 2012

You Can Now Smell Like Pizza Hut, Chanel Storms a Scottish Castle, and We Reveal the Woman Behind Choupette’s Twitter!
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You Can Now Smell Like Pizza Hut, Chanel Storms a Scottish Castle, and We Reveal the Woman Behind Choupette’s Twitter!

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Sarah Jessica Parker Lies About a Bikini: But why, SJP? The actress made this sort of strange confession at the premiere of In Vogue: the Editor’s Eye earlier this week.

Pizza Hut Perfume is Happening: You’ve always wanted to smell like a hot and fresh pizza–us too. Pizza Hut has got you covered (even if we’ve always preferred Domino’s).

We Reveal the Mastermind Behind Choupette’s Twitter: And no, it wasn’t Karl. But speaking of the Kaiser…

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Sunday December 2nd, 2012

The Best Fashion Books of 2012, Dressing Like a Hitchcock Heroine, and Alexander Wang to Balenciaga
Week In Review

The Best Fashion Books of 2012, Dressing Like a Hitchcock Heroine, and Alexander Wang to Balenciaga

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Alexander Wang x Balenciaga: Is he or isn’t he? With the speculation hitting fever pitch that Wang is next in line to oversee Balenciaga, the world is now waiting on a confirmation from the designer and/or the fashion house. In the mean time, here are his greatest accessories hits.

Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell Cover Interview Magazine: Besides being gorgeous (and, um, naked), this is one of only two covers since 2008 which feature the two legends together.

In Vogue: The Editor’s Eye: Watch a sneak peek of what to expect from the HBO documentary airing this December 6th.

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Sunday November 18th, 2012

We Add to Vogue‘s Best Dressed List, the Victoria’s Secret ‘Native American’ Controversy, and Kristen Stewart’s Many Twilight Red Carpet Moments
Week In Review

We Add to Vogue‘s Best Dressed List, the Victoria’s Secret ‘Native American’ Controversy, and Kristen Stewart’s Many Twilight Red Carpet Moments

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We Add to Vogue‘s Best Dressed List: Shortlisting 10 of the best dressed women in the world can’t have been easy, and while we think Vogue did a great job, there are another 10 ladies we feel deserved a shout out.

Deborah Needleman’s T Magazine: The magazine is not the same place that Sally Singer left it. To give you an idea of what to expect from the new team, we compiled this guide to the staffers Needleman has brought on board.

A Misérables Diet: In her Vogue cover story Anne Hathaway spoke about her diet of “two thin squares of dried oatmeal paste a day” to slim down for her role as Fantine in Les Misérables. We had so many questions, like for starters, what is dried oatmeal paste? And what does it taste like? So we made some.

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Sunday November 11th, 2012

Nicolas Ghesquière Out at Balenciaga, the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show Extravaganza, and Election Day Fashion
Week In Review

Nicolas Ghesquière Out at Balenciaga, the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show Extravaganza, and Election Day Fashion

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Nicolas Ghesquière Leaves Balenciaga: The fashion world got a shock on Monday when Balenciaga announced that they were parting ways with their star designer. Cathy Horyn offered some insight into why Ghesquière may have left. Plus we took a look at the designer’s greatest hits at the storied house and the short list of candidates for the open design job.

We Love the Obamas: We’re excited that we get to see another four years of iconic style from Mrs. O and her daughters, who are growing into little fashionistas in their own right. The best thing about their style? The Obama ladies aren’t afraid to repeat a classic as evidenced by Michelle’s outfit at the polls, and her choice for election night. Relive all the best presidential campaign fashion stories here.

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