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Every year, the CFDA honors the best clothing and accessories designers of the year, as determined by a jury of their peers (which includes CFDA members as well as select fashion retailers, press, and stylists). I feel so lucky to be able cast my vote, but it is difficult to decide who really has been the most influential designer of the Fall and Spring 2008 collections. Here's the catch: you can't include any of the biggies who have won in the last few years - you can see them here.

Who would you vote for for Best American Designer? Best New Talent and Established Talent? What about Best Accessories Designer - new and established? Let me know who would get your vote!

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Got an invitation to a play called "Diary of a Mad Fashionista" - sounds like my kind of play! Unfortunately, I wasn't free, so Kirk, our Men's editor, went to check it out for me. Here's his take and a quick Q&A with star and writer Elisa DeCarlo:

"Diary of a Mad Fashionista" gets TETU -- two enthusiastic thumbs up! I enjoyed the blend of fashion history with the contemporary referencing of celebrity, marketing and branding of clothing as well as people. I laughed out loud. Good stuff!

Kirk: What is your fashion background?
Elisa: I have been obsessed with clothing since I was a young teenager and I started watching old movies...I loved the clothing in the old movies, especially the Technicolor musicals from the 1940s. I wanted to look like those ladies in all the elegant draping and the furs and just the lavishness of it all. Later, as an adult, I was able to find those kinds of clothes in thrift store. To me, clothes are costumes.

Kirk: What inspired you to write your

This morning on the Today show we celebrated our March Hollywood issue by using vintage covers of celebrities wearing Glamour-ous looks and then used our interns and assistants to demonstrate how to wear it now. It is pretty amazing how the fashion from 1939-1941 is the look for 2008 and how easy it was to find the clothes to match the covers. All of our girls looked gorgeous. I could see myself in every one of these looks. Which is your favorite?

When I see celebrities in person, they really do look so different from us. Today I was trying to figure out why and it was pretty simple: perfect hair+ perfect makeup+ perfect head-to-toe outfit mixed with a little skinexposure = modern-day celebutante. What is your looking-great recipe?

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Forgive me for being obsessed with my best friend's wedding. I don't fantasize about my own wedding (nor does my mom, who got married in city hall wearing an orange pantsuit), but for some reason I'm infatuated with hers. Here is the latest topic I am hoping you'll weigh in on: The bride's sister has a very prominent arm tattoo, in honor of her friend who died.

Our b-maid dresses won't cover it, but the bride doesn't mind. Her mom, however, has been quite distraught, going so far as to suggest the sister order an extra dress and have a seamstress fashion it into a small taffeta coat! That didn't happen, but some people have suggested we could get the bride's makeup artist to airbrush-conceal the tat. If it were your wedding, would a bridesmaid's major tattoo bother you? What do you think we should do in this situation?

- Petra Guglielmetti


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I am finally ready to jump on the Rihanna bandwagon (I know I'm late). Whether it's her clothes, hair or whatever, she's the only celeb out there that's really taking risks with her style--and the results are usually gorgeous. For example, most people have been stuck in a super-dark or super-light nail color rut for a while now. Not Rihanna! Look at this picture of her showing off long, bright coral fingertips. I say it's a Do. What's your take on the look?

- Baze Mpinja

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Baze's shoutout to boy-curls yesterday reminded me of another dude-oriented topic we were discussing: earrings. Anybody else notice Colin Farrell and Daniel Day Lewis sporting decent-size double hoops at the Oscars? What do you think: bad-boy sexy, or pirate-costume lame?

Then came Harrison Ford, wearing what appeared to be one of those "starter studs" you receive free with piercing at Claire's in the mall. Oh, H-Ford: Just cuz Diddypulls off ear rocks doesn't mean you should go there.

- Petra Guglielmetti

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For those of you who don't know (I didn't), D.D. Ryan was a '60s photo editor and fashion designer who worked with Diana Vreeland, Halston, Richard Avedon, and Stephen Sondheim and whose social world included Andy Warhol and Truman Capote. From all accounts, she was one of those stylish New York legends, a cool lady who dressed impeccably and had lots of amazing friends. She died in July 2007.

I discovered D.D. a few days ago when I was searching for Halston on eBay. Her estate's collection of nearly 1,000 pieces of jewelry, art, furniture, clothes, and ephemera is currently being auctioned on eBay, and it is beyond, beyond amazing. In the art section alone, there are original Warhol screenprints, Warhol wallpaper by Richard Bernstein, a few Lichtensteins, and even a Picasso. But I especially like her less showy, less expensive stuff, like these quiet botanical prints. The live auction starts on March 1, so start sorting through your picks or at least taking a visual tour right now.

After an entire season spent wearing boots (either snow or stylish), this is the moment when I start thinking about real shoes-any kind of cute flats, little heels, or full-blown pumps.

Spring is also traditionally my most experimental season fashionwise-after months spent under layers, I'm truly ready to break out and try new things. Right now I'm obsessed with any kind of loaferish, pilgrimish shoes, like these vintage pairs from Ferragamo. I like them in black, white, and navy. I know they're a little bit odd. But I'm imagining them with crisp jeans and a girly tie-neck top. Or a really severe-looking, almost institutional dress with a khaki coat.

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