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Love the crazy way Jean Paul Gaultier put his signature nautical stripes on wacky, cool furniture

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You know your guy friend is playing for the other team when he is as excited about these old movie star dresses as you!

If I could live in any other time, I would have to say it would be in the 1950's to 1960 in Rome, on the via Veneto.

Fernanda Gattinoni for Kim Novak

I would be an a hourglass vixen, with heavy eyeliner, a hot temper and smoldering sexuality in a Maserati convertible with a death-defyingly sexy man by my side. Marcello Mastroianni would be on my short list of suitors. We would be filmed, in black and white-- of course-- as we tried to make it past the paparazzi of the Federico Fellini "La Dolce Vita" kind.

I also had my Audrey Hepburn infatuation and almost died when I met her, but that's another story.

So, who could possibly be as obsessed (interested?) in the allure of this period and its style more than my GBF, Richard Nahem, who once told me that I had a Kim Novak back, and I got what he meant!

Rome comes to Paris by way of the Fernanda Gattinoni Exhibit at Italian Cultural Center; Richard reports. --S.H.

In the 50's and 60's Italian couturier Fernanda Gattinoni designed clothes for the biggest Hollywood and international stars including Kim Novak, Ingrid Bergman, Anouk Aimee, Bette Davis, Gina Lollobrigida, Ava Gardner, and Anna Magnani.

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My Dog, Myself: Paris Pooches... they've got the look!

Only in Paris when you look like your dog, it will be chic!

I know I will get an argument by dog lovers from other places (particularly from Sharon and her love of French poodles), but I say no one loves their dogs more than Parisians.

I back up my statement with the fact that dogs are allowed almost anywhere in Paris- at the butcher, the baker, restaurants, the metro, parks, art galleries, food shops, boutiques, and dog grooming salons.

>> SHOP: Need to be discreet? Check out our Cute Pet Carriers

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Kate Moss for Longchamp was so five minutes ago as we dig further back in It Girl sex symbols to go forward in It Bags

Lancel is reverting back to the glory days of the iconic French sex symbol Brigitte Bardot with its launch of Le Brigitte Bardot handbag. Known as the provocative "woman child" who captured 1950's Saint Tropez and the world with her so carefree, sexy teased blonde hair, heavily lined cat eyes, and sometimes wearing not much else... well, the bikini and gingham have her to thank for a rise in popularity.

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Booking it: J. Alexander tells it like it is and the boy can talk... I know!

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Richard Nahem interviews the woman behind the super stylish and cutting edge boutique

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A look back at our favorites stories in fashion beauty, style, wellness, travel, and more

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Retail Remedy: Have yourself a very modern Christmas full of simple and clean artistic references...

Both luxury retailer Lanvin Paris and luxury department store Le Bon Marche take an artistic turn for their Christmas windows.

I especially like the clever holiday windows at the Lanvin men's and women's shop that have a surreal post-modern art feel.

Very modern and dramatic mannequins are tipped to 45 degree angles as if windswept to the next party. Or, perhaps the literal feel of New Year's Day.

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