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What Your Favorite Fashion Industry Insiders Wore to Go Back to School

Remember how fun it was to pick out your outfit for the first day of school? New school year, new outfit, new you, right? Click through to see what all your favorite fashion industry insiders--everyone from Eva Chen to Oscar PR Girl's Erika Bearman to Rebecca Minkoff to DKNY PR Girl Aliza Licht--wore to go back to school--and shop the updated look for today.

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DKNY Brings Back Its Iconic SoHo Billboard With New Art Project

For 16 years the brick wall on the corner of Broadway and Houston in SoHo was emblazoned with a several-stories-high DKNY logo through which you could see the Statue of Liberty and the NYC skyline. The billboard was an iconic New York symbol--until it came down in 2008 when the building was sold and DKNY was forced to remove it. "We've literally been in mourning since 2008 with that SoHo wall. A lot of people have. We constantly hear, 'I can't believe it's not there,'" Aliza Licht, aka @DKNYPRGirl, the brand's Senior Vice President of Communications, told us. "It's made an impact more than just an advertising campaign would have made. It was there for 16 years. People associate it with the city, the framework of the city." So DKNY is bringing it back, via an international art project spanning 10 cities across the globe.

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Saks and Marc Jacobs Win Big at Fashion 2.0 Awards

They came, they saw, they hashtagged. The annual Fashion 2.0 Awards (basically the Oscars of fashion social media) celebrates the most popular brand stars on the Web--all of whom congregated at SVA Theatre last night. Now in its fourth year, the award show presents accolades to fashion brands and their social media channels including Twitter, Pinterest, Facebook, among others, voted by the general public. Click through to see the full list of winner, plus why keynote speaker Simon Doonan thinks dogshit and social media are inextricably intertwined.

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Fashionista and Bryanboy Punk New York Fashion Week

It started out as a big idea: We'd have Fashionista contributor and Haute Cuisine host David Yi dress up exactly like Bryanboy (we're talking head-to-toe) and then attend a New York Fashion Week show along with him. And then, with cameras rolling, we'd see what happened. People already mistook Yi as the renowned fashion blogger. "I remember one year an editor sitting next to me at Peter Som noticed my then-bleach blonde hair and said, verbatim, 'Bryanboy, your fans are going to go crazy because of your new hair.'" Yi said. To which he replied, "Uh, racist." Anyway, we thought we'd have a little fun with that. Watch what happened!

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Hackathons Invade New York Fashion Week

Not one but two 'fashion hackathons'--one hosted by the CFDA and IMG and the other by Hearst--will take place during this coming New York fashion week. This news is pretty surprising when you consider that most fashion people probably don’t even know what a hackathon is. To explain what a hackathon is, why it’s happening during New York fashion week, and what this means for the industry, we spoke with Liz Bacelar, founder of Decoded Fashion, an organization that creates events dedicated to bringing fashion and tech together. Bacelar, along with former Lincoln Center fashion director (and, before that, director of special events at Vogue) Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, made the CFDA/IMG fashion hackathon (an official part of NYFW) happen.

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What We're Thankful For in Fashion: Designers, Models and Bloggers Weigh In

It's Thanksgiving! The one day a year the fashion world puts aside its fad diets and smizes in favor of that extra slice of pumpkin pie and some awkward yet so-necessary family photos. To keep things light on this day of heavy feasting, we asked some of our favorite people in the industry what fashion things (what else?) they're thankful for. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

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How the Fashion Industry Prepped for Hurricane Sandy

Hurricane Sandy is upon us--but the fashion industry isn't letting this Frankenstorm bring them down. We checked in with some of our favorite people in the industry--from The Man Repeller's Leandra Medine to Kelly Cutrone to DKNY PR Girl Aliza Licht--to find out how they prepped for tonight's storm. For an industry that's supposed to shun carbs we are collectively loaded up on them--as well as candy, nail polish, and fashion mags to read by scented candle light. Click through to see how everyone is getting ready. And above all, everybody stay safe!!

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Fashion News Roundup: Marc Jacobs Lets 14-Year-Old Models Walk in His Show, Anna Dello Russo Crouched at Diesel, and Lindsay Lohan Shows Terry Richardson Her Undies

Marc Jacobs Uses Underage Models, Defies CFDA Guidelines: Much like the crazy nastyass honey badger, Marc Jacobs just don't care about the CFDA's proposed guidelines to ban models under age 16 from the runway, despite the fact that Jacobs is a member of the organization. In brazen defiance, Jacobs used at least two models who had potentially just completed their bat mitzvah's, stating "If their parents are willing to let them do a show, I don’t see any reason that it should be me who tells them that they can’t." Whatever, whatever, Marc does what he wants! {NY Times} New Designers Struggle to Get Notice at NYFW: Not all designers can get Anna Wintour (or even George Lucas) in the front row. Take a look into the world of the new and talented designers who can't yet afford a runway at Lincoln Center, or a professional makeup artist for that matter. {NY Mag} Bar Rafaeli Felt Flabby in Sports Illustrated: The lingerie model-turned-designer says she felt fat and flabby posing with professional athletes for the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. In the poignant word of Michelle Tanner: "Puh-lease." {NY Mag}