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BY KATIE VAN SYCKLE

Watching major sporting events, I always wonder what happens to the losers' hats. By the end of the Super Bowl, the winning coach is covered in ice, his quarterback is grinning in a "World Champions" cap, and somewhere, I imagine, a team of waterboys are scrambling to hide the unused hats designed in case the other guys won.

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ucas Tange/Corbis I imagine something similar happens to famous people's exes, the woman next to the man - until she wasn't. And somewhere, languishing in a closet full of unknown hats, there's a pile of women discarded by ambitious men. (And vice versa.) They're the unknown Mia Farrows, Jennifer Anistons, and Taylor Swift dumpees. But because Taylor Swift won't write a song about them, they will simply be forgotten.

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BY HATTIE CRISELL

After several seasons of being frustratingly coy about his womenswear collections, then showing them only to an elite few and releasing images days or months later, last night Tom Ford finally gave the press what we wanted all along: the sexiest, most extravagant event of London Fashion Week.

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Samir Hussein/Getty Images Picture the most Tom Fordian scene you can conjure. Add 30 more male models (for, surely, you already had a few?) wearing black suits and side parts. Now put them all in a palace. There it is - Tom Ford in all his ostentatious Gucci-heyday form, with a properly flashy collection featuring sleek gowns and sequins.



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It was clear from a first glance at Lancaster House, a nineteenth-century mansion attached to St James's Palace, that guests had arrived at the right address. The entrance was carpeted in black and flanked by flaming black

BY KAT STOEFFEL

NBCMen and women tweet differently, finds another groundbreaking study from the University of Duh. More interesting, according to a BuzzFeed report, is that the study of 9,212,118 tweets from more than 14,464 users reveals a set of markers that can predict a tweeter's gender. Those markers might come in handy if, for some reason, you needed to convince your followers that you were female. Or, um, if your friend did.


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1. Tweet your feelings. Emotion-related terms terms like sad, love, glad, sick, proud, happy, scared, annoyed, excited, and jealous are all female markers, says BuzzFeed. Try, "I'm sad that I'm going to die from Leukemia before my boyfriend can make me proud in the big game."

2. Emote with punctuation. Yes, emoticons are a female marker. :/ But so are ellipses (a.k.a. textual side-eye), as well as exclamation marks and question marks, both at the same time ("?!" a.k.a. raised eyebrows)

BY CHRISTINA HAN
Celebrity trainer David Kirsch is known for lifting, firming, and toning some of the best bodies that appear on the runway, silver screen, and glossy magazine covers. Heidi Klum's flat stomach? Kirsch-ed. Karolina Kurkova's lifted tush? Kirsch-ed. Liv Tyler's everything? Kirsch-ed. The latest addition to the Manhattan-based, nutrition-obsessed trainer's collection of toned clients is none other than Kate Upton, two-time cover girl of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue and owner of the most enviable set of boobs we've seen, ever.

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The two first started working together in August out of Kirsch's Madison Square Club when she wanted some basic body maintenance, and things went into overdrive once it started to get closer to the arctic photo shoot. "I made it very clear to her, I love her curves and I wasn't going to do anything to [make her] skinnier," said the body-conscious Kirsch. "It was about

BY SALLY HOLMES
"I would get about a quarter of a gallon of fat out of you," Dr. Aaron Rollins says to me while pinching my arm fat in his Beverly Hills office. The man in front of me - the answer to Hollywood's greatest body-image issues - looks like an extra-tall Ken Doll and says this with jaunty enthusiasm. He's the founder of Elite Body Sculpting, the provider of new-age liposuction for the stars, but he explains his job more simply: "I only do one thing. All I do is take people's fat, but I call it body sculpting."

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Elite Body Sculpting Most celebrities spend a good deal of time maintaining their bodies through rigorous workouts and diet plans, but Rollins says that stars often discover that they have to be in front of a camera at a moment's notice and often feel like they need something their trainer can't give them. "People have to be naked, or in a swimsuit for a shoot, or get into a dress for Cannes, and

BY VANESSA GRIGORIADIS

Is there any bigger affront to the most stylish 14-year-old girl in Hollywood than having to wear a kilt to school? Done in a traditional tartan, it's part of the uniform at Campbell Hall, Elle Fanning's private school in the San Fernando Valley, where it's paired with a polo or blouse in white and navy (seniors may add two colors) and a navy overcoat (all jackets, including hoodies, must be navy). Fanning-co-star of films like Super 8, We Bought a Zoo, and the upcoming BFF-betrayal indie Ginger & Rosa-likes to wear her skirt short, but not too short, on her "five-seven-and-three-quarters" frame, and who's to say what's short anyway? "The kilt's supposed to be long enough that your fingertips can reach the ends [when you're standing]. But what if someone has extra-long or extra-short arms?" she says, giggling.

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BY KAT STOEFFEL

Photo: Bernd Vogel/CorbisHuman reproduction works in mysterious but occasionally brilliant ways. A new study out of the Harvard School of Public Health found that men who watched more than twenty hours of television a week had sperm counts that were 44 percent lower than those of men who watched almost no television. It makes perfect sense from an evolutionary perspective. With The West Wing on Netflix, who would have time to raise the hypothetical children made from those sperm? Better that these bloodlines die off. On the other hand, all's well in the gym-rat sperm factory. "Men who engaged in moderate to vigorous exercise for 15 or more hours a week had 73% higher sperm count than men who exercised less than five hours per week," the Los Angeles Times wrote, suggesting the future of the television-loving human race depends on these laptop harnesses.

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When the Sartorialist was founded by Scott Schuman in 2005, it was a small blog devoted to capturing stylish, unknown men (and eventually women) as they walked through the streets and attended fashion shows. By 2008, photographers like Tommy Ton and Phil Oh were gaining attention for their blogs - Jak & Jil and Streetpeeper - as they snapped editors like Taylor Tomasi-Hill, Joanna Hillman, and Kate Lanphear outside the shows. Though they were known in the industry, none of these women had attracted the rabid, style-icon status they hold now.