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Country-and-western glamour takes center stage in the new series, Nashville, whose first episode airs this week on ABC; Hayden Panettiere plays Juliette Barnes, a bold newcomer to the music scene whose career, though nascent, poses a threat to established star Rayna Jaymes, played by Connie Britton. To mark the series premiere, we revisit the genre's style predecessors in film and TV. The heroines of Lonesome Dove and Maverick shared a predilection for the femininity of Victorian lace blouses and rustling silk prairie skirts, all tempered by the functionality of denim, leather, and tweed, while True Grit's Hailee Steinfeld mastered rustic elegance with a belted men's overcoat and Boss of the Plains style hat. As Gwyneth Paltrow demonstrated in Country Strong, the art of country style can mean wearing coruscating show costumes with joyful insouciance, but as Sissy Spacek exhibits in her turn as Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner's Daughter, no matter how much a superstar

This season's new rock biographies and memoirs capture the sound, the swagger-and the sex.


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For many of us, Columbus Day brings us the first three-day weekend of the season-so why not take advantage of it by getting behind the wheel and hitting the road for a few days away? Not only is autumn an ideal time to check out new scenery, it's also a prime opportunity to debut some of the key pieces from your new wardrobe. Stymied by what to put in your suitcase? Here are ten fashionable ideas for the perfect escape.

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Just when you thought the fall TV season was taking forever to get started, it charges full steam ahead this week, featuring new comedies with old favorites, a new take on an old hero, and the season premiere of more than twelve programs, from Modern Family and Revenge to The Good Wife (which rumor has may offer some 50 Shades of Grey kink to perk up Sunday night). Here's our pick of five shows-some already great, some with potential-that should have everyone talking.

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As a model-turned-photographer, Hanneli Mustaparta is one of the few who understands the world of street style in front of and behind the camera. This season, though, there hasn't been time for capturing MODs (models-off-duty) in her schedule. And when I spy her outside of the Marc by Marc Jacobs show, dashing off to an appointment at Calvin Klein, she is stopped at least a dozen times in the course of one block, turning the sidewalk into an impromptu photo shoot; a tilt of the head this way, a subtle bend of the knee that way. "When I'm shooting, I actually prefer it when people are not aware of the cameras at all," she says. "People are most beautiful when they're not trying."

Her self-portraits are inspired by early noughties paparazzi snaps of the Olsen twins even if the production values of her work are not exactly incidental. To set up a picture, Mustaparta gauges light levels and framing so that all that is required for the shot is an assisted click of the

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The next episode of Glee hits home for those at a certain website-on Thursday, Sarah Jessica Parker plays the editor of Vogue.com. In our exclusive clip from the show, Kurt (Chris Colfer) is interviewed for an internship by Isabelle Wright (Parker), a first encounter that promises to be both auspicious and anxious. Don't expect Parker to revisit her Sex and the City style, however: "It's not like Carrie Bradshaw," the actress says of her character's look. (Vogue helped with the costumes, which include pieces by Prabal Gurung, Altuzarra, Belstaff, and Fendi.) "It's fashion, but it's not crazy and eccentric. We're doing very strong, simple shifts. It's sexy, hard, and facilitative."

See an exclusive sneak peek of the episode here.

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It may be the start of Milan Fashion Week, but regardless, the Italians are clearly having a moment. From fantastic ideas in their fall collections-on sale now-to touching tributes and can't-miss art exhibitions, here are some of the very best things coming out of Italy right now.


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Before she launched the collection that bears her name, Vera Wang spent sixteen years working behind the scenes at Vogue, first as a rover and eventually as a fashion editor.

My Vogue story is a little bit of a Lana Turner story-not that I'm blonde and buxom, but you get the idea. I really lost my way when my figure-skating career ended. I was nineteen, and I was in a panic because nothing had played out the way I'd hoped, after years of hard work. I ended up living in Paris for a while, which was truly the center of fashion then. The French women were so elegant and so chic; they had defined how to knot a scarf. This was the era of the Hermès bag-the Kelly-and everyone was wearing wonderful colors of nail polish, which was suddenly a very big deal at that time.

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Back in New York, I tried to carry a little of Paris with me. I was working as a salesgirl and doing windows at Yves Saint Laurent on Madison