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Plus: shirtless male models!

Rebecca Taylor is nothing if not a girl's girl, and she certainly knows how to please the ruffle-loving crowd. Exhibit A? Clad in appropriately embellished numbers, Louise Roe, Jordana Brewster, Ashley Tisdale, and (shocker!) Sophia Bush all sat front-row. Still, the designer opted for a more eccentric, even slightly subversive--for her, mind you--direction this particular season. Rather than being worn traditionally as looped necklaces, for instance, long strands of pearls finished with a single colorful tassel were slung cross-body like a fancypants sash. I, for one, dug the look, and may even have to rock my favorite pearls in similar form sometime soon. Snakeskin-patterned leather popped up, too--here as a peplum apron top, there as a cropped cardi-jacket, and it all looked nicely finished. Continuing their winning streak after being declared the embellishment du jour at Prada's fall show, champagne-colored paillettes appeared on tons of knit separates. They looked particularly cool on the open-weave cross-back tanks that showed a flash of skin in back--risqué, Rebecca!

more Lake Bell always has great casual, cool girl style and she's doing everything right color-wise with this look. Kiera Knightley takes a risk and l

We took a break from the front row this week to see what our faves were getting up to besides fashion shows.

Emily Current and Meritt Elliot met over ten years ago at UCLA. They were both studying sociology, but spent more of their time scouring Goodwill and