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Ning Chao

Low and swooping, Balenciaga and Calvin Klein Collection's plunging necklines for spring are destined to make the pulse race-but with their décolleté-revealing cuts, they may stir up a few butterflies, too. "Most women are religious about using sunscreen on their face, but don't apply anything to the neck," says New York City dermatologist Pat Wexler of the oft-neglected area, which, along with the chest, is among the first to show the early signs of aging. Long-term damage can result in sun spots, crepiness, wrinkles, and a loss of youthful definition, while post-winter dullness and patchiness leave skin looking uneven. Dior's satin organza spring runway scarves may offer quick camouflage. Come sundress season, however, chances are you'll need more help. Here's how to smooth and treat the area just in time for a little warm-weather exposure-from the best in-office treatments to the most transformative treatment serums and creams.

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Alexandra Macon

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Thick, swingy, extra-long hair is having a moment, if a look at the recent fall fashion collections is any indication. Bianca Brandolini and Tallulah Harlech were spotted front-row at the Giambattista Valli show with unprecedented waist-skimming lengths, while Gabriella Wilde caused a stir at Burberry with her center-parted blonde hair spilling down the back of her navy cape. The backstage scene was no exception, with runway (and street-style) favorites Caroline Brasch Nielsen and Tilda Lindstam sporting extra-long lengths-even by model standards. Also offering proof of its instantly youth-embuing effects: Los Angeles-based model Kirsty Hume, whose thick rope of honey-colored hair has been her signature since the early nineties, and actresses Sofía Vergara and Amanda Seyfried.

Around the Vogue offices, the look has long had a serious fan base, with too many die-hard devotees to count on one hand.

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"It feels very

In today's beauty tutorial, makeup artist Alice Lane dips into an arsenal of subtle, light-reflective creams-patting them along the cheekbones, bridge of the nose, and even the cupid's bow of the mouth in the service of creating supernaturally radiant skin. Here, Vogue's expanded guide to the products you'll need to get the look, from the right champagne-hued highlighting stick to the perfect just-pinched cheek color.

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The Duchess of Cambridge is known to repeat an outfit or two-recycling looks is practically her M.O. At five-and-a-half-months pregnant, her baby bump is only just now starting to show, and she's been spotted out and about shopping for new clothes that accommodate her burgeoning belly, in addition to reworking tried and true looks from her own closet. Since no one wants to spend a small fortune on maternity clothes they're never going to want to see again after the baby's born, we've taken a page from the Duchess's playbook and pulled together the necessary maternity wear that can go from day to night, from five months to due date, and versatile pieces that you can wear long past baby's first steps-because when a look works, you should work it hard.

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When it comes to debating the merits of adding a little extra flourish to your Easter look this weekend, Irving Berlin put it the best:

So, while we are all on board with being the grandest lady anywhere we go, the one photographers snap on Fifth Avenue, we may not all be suited, temperamentally or otherwise, for donning a floppy, ribbon-festooned, pastel-pink Easter bonnet this Sunday. Fortunately, fashion has seen to it that we have plenty of other options for giving a nod to tradition while bucking it just the same.

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Along with the more expected fresh things that crop up come spring, like flowers and fashion, we're anticipating a number of happy returns on the cultural landscape. From the small screen to the printed page, here is our roundup of some of this season's most promising highlights.

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Joyce Maynard

The burning question arose again recently-hardly for the first time: Has Hillary Clinton undergone a face-lift?

This time it was a voice in the crowd at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) who voiced the opinion that she should. Only a few weeks earlier, Fox News speculated that she'd had one already, with incriminating before and (allegedly) after photos.

While I appreciate Paul Begala's support of Clinton with his suggestion that only Republican socialites work on their faces, I would have preferred him to remind the crowd that the law has not yet been written that a woman's concern for her appearance is now a crime.

Like Hillary Clinton, I came of age during an era of highly vocal feminism, and, like her, was the beneficiary of some of its advances. I was seventeen when I entered Yale University, in its third class of women-where I found myself, for my scholarship job, bussing the dining tables of students at the Yale Law School. I don't

Catherine Piercy


Courtesy of Hanneli MustapartaHanneli Mustaparta is thinking spring. "I'm looking for the perfect high-waisted skirt right now!" says the street-style photographer and model enthusiastically. "It has to be straight but not too tight-and not too 80s either."

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Once she finds it, she plans on wearing it with her new baby blue Acne leather jacket-and, of course, the smooth, bare, supernaturally great legs that are her signature. As it turns out, Mustaparta has a trick for getting her long limbs warm-weather-ready fast, "no matter how white and pale they are after winter."

First, she says, "if my skin is dry, I use a simple body lotion that's a little bit greasy, like Lubriderm, all over my legs and wait for ten minutes." Once it absorbs, she reaches for her favorite gloProfessional Pressed Base powder, dusting it all over her legs with a fluffy brush. "It's perfect because it's not shiny and it's not a cream, so it doesn't rub onto clothes or smudge once it's