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Beauty

Backstage Beauty Brief: Jason Wu, Rag and Bone, and More

We're spending the week skulking around backstage at some of the hottest (and coolest) shows at New York fashion week to bring you the best beauty looks, new products, and gossipy tidbits that we pick up in our travels. So click through to check out the beauty backstage at Jason Wu, Rag and Bone, Rebecca Minkoff and tons more.

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Business

Coco Rocha Talks Juice Fasting and the 'Right' Way to Model

A handful of Dannijo “girl crushes”--cool chicks that designer sisters Danielle and Jodie Snyder love and feature on their blog--came to pay their respects at the brand's presentation yesterday at the Jane Hotel. Among them was model and model rights champion Coco Rocha. She took time out from gleefully tweeting and Instagramming (the girl loves her social media) to tell us how she feels about the CFDA’s controversial partnership with Organic Avenue and the differences between her, Naomi Campbell, and Karolina Kurkova on new model reality TV show The Face.

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Business

Killer Style: How to Dress Like A Hitchcock Heroine

Hitchcock, the Oscar-vehicle starring Anthony Hopkins as Hitch and Scarlett Johansson as Janet Leigh, hit select theaters this past weekend. There hasn't been much fashion buzz about the film aside from Scarlett Johansson's Psycho-themed V cover, which focused more on her scream than her clothes (as well it should have), but we've always had a soft-spot for the fashion in Hitchcock's films.

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Business

Versace To Dress Lady Gaga for Her Next Tour, Penelope Cruz is a Calendar Girl, and Marc Jacobs Decamps to Paris Post-Sandy

A little Twitter birdy told us that Versace is designing the costumes for Lady Gaga's Born This Way Ball Tour (okay, the birdy was Gaga herself). {Twitter} Penelope Cruz sizzles in red for the 2013 Campari calendar. {Fashion Gone Rogue} An increasing number of retailers will be open on Thanksgiving Day in a trend that business insiders are referring to as "Black Thursday." {WWD, subscription required}

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Business

Fashion News Roundup: Lady Gaga Wears a Wedding Gown, a Dictator's Wife Carries Dior, and Alexa Chung Lands a Maje-or Ad Campaign

Lady Gaga is a Vogue cover girl for the second time, but could a cover of Bride be next? Vie Luxe CEO Marjorie Gubelmann posted a picture of Gaga in full bridal regalia to her Instagram, sparking rumors she was planning nuptials with boyfriend Taylor Kinney. {Sugarscape} Lucky magazine has landed themselves in a bit of hot water with readers over their new "Fill the Void" campaign. {HuffPo} Karmic cell phone retribution? Naomi Campbell was snapped on vacation with what appear to be serious bald spots on her scalp. {Radar Online} North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un visited an army unit with wife Ri Sol-Ju in tow, and despite serious problems affecting the country, she brought along her Dior clutch, worth the average annual income of a North Korean family. {Telegraph}

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Business

Fashion News Roundup: J.Lo's Stylist Denies a Nip Slip, Katy Perry Looks Hot on Interview, and Topshop Opens on the West Coast

Jennifer Lopez and the Nip Slip That Wasn't: Despite Twitter buzz to the contrary, Jennifer Lopez's stylist Mariel Haenn insists that a nip slip Sunday night just wasn't possible for J. Lo. "While the dress did give the illusion of sheer-ness, joke's on everyone who wishes they saw something!" scoffs the stylist, adding that the gown had "special cups" to prevent any slips. {People} Grading the Men: As it turns out, the men didn't get very high accolades at last night's red carpet. Many committed tuxedo sins, like pants that were too long (George Clooney) or a business-like tie with a formal jacket (Antonio Banderas). Passing grades were given to presenters Tom Hanks and Christian Bale. {NYT} Katy Perry Covers Interview: Proving that the best revenge is living well (and looking HOT), Katy Perry channels her inner siren on the upcoming cover of Interview. It's definitely different than we're used to seeing Perry - more sexy and less saccharine. We can't wait for the full spread! {ONTD}

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Style

Last Night's Party: Coach Celebrates the High Line with Paz de la Huerta and Dan Humphrey

Crowd pleaser Coach hosted last night’s Summer Party on the High Line. There we found custom monogrammed luggage tags, Dan Humphrey (aka Gossip Girl's Penn Badgley) rocking some chest hair, and possibly even more exciting (depending on your appreciation for male cleavage): Grey Goose-spiked ice pops. After accidentally trekking our best shoes through the park’s new water feature--warning: look down or you’ll get soaked--we stumbled upon a rouge-lipped Paz de la Huerta dressed in a black Gucci number and a re-issued Coach bag. It was the Boardwalk Empire star’s first time in the park since its re-opening, “I used to come here as a child before it was the High Line,” she told us. As for the attention her lipstick’s been getting these days, she said, “The whole thing is ridiculous, it has nothing to do with the color of my clothing. Tonight I’m not wearing a red dress, and I would never match this with black lipstick.”

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Style

The 11 Best Fashion Brands to Follow on Tumblr

It makes sense that fashion brands have glommed onto Tumblr. The microblogging platform's highly visual nature is a perfect fit for fashion brands to showcase their identities in creative and subtle ways. Of course, some brands are much better at it than others. Here are the brands we think are using Tumblr best right now.

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Style

Sister Act: Dannijo Debuts At New York Fashion Week, and More Details on Their Vena Cava Collaboration

When we last saw Jodie and Danielle Snyder, the sisters behind jewelry line Dannijo, we were interviewing them for our "How I'm Making It" series. Well it certainly seems like the girls have "made it." On Tuesday night the Snyder sisters made their New York Fashion Week debut, presenting their fall 2011 collection, "Aboriginal," at a packed gallery space on West 22nd St. Perfectly-styled models in tousled finger-waves done by Sally Hershberger (and one older gentleman smoking a cigar) posed in meticulously constructed vignettes that recalled the wild west--old wood cabins and pelts on the walls. Tinsley Mortimer (yes, really) was also inexplicably floating around.

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Style

Gift Guide: The Best Gifts for the Style and Tech-Savvy

As Oprah and her audience can attest, iPads make great gifts. So do laptops, e-readers, smart phones and other fun technology. But perhaps even more fun (not to mention less expensive) are the accessories out there to go along with these gadgets. Honestly, I'm not sure which I'd be more excited to unwrap--an actual iPad or a snake-embossed Rebecca Minkoff case for it. (Ok, probs an iPad.) As more and more designers are smartly expanding into this market, there are now a plethora of fashionable ways to pretty-up your new toys, the sleekest of which still tend to look drab and impersonal. There are Mulberry patent leather laptop cases, Marc by Marc headphones, Tory Burch Kindle sleeves and so much more. Click through for the best tech gifts.

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Careers

How I'm Making It: DANNIJO

For the second installment of our new feature, "How I'm Making It," we present Jodie and Danielle Snyder, the sisters behind DANNIJO jewelry. Jodie, 28, and Danielle, 25, quit their jobs to launch their line in December 2007, and Bergdorf Goodman picked up DANNIJO in March of 2008. Today, Dannoji is sold everywhere from Henri Bendel's to Harvey Nichols Hong Kong, and has found fans in Natalie Portman, Blake Lively and Beyonce. Why jewelry? Danielle: When my sister and I were teenagers we found our dad’s medical tool kit and taught ourselves how to do wire work with them and started making jewelry for all our friends. Jodie: When I was in college we had opened a boutique in Jacksonville, Florida--where we're from--to sell our jewelry. We noticed that we had a following and that it was well received.