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Gossip Girl resumes new episodes tonight.  Don’t pretend you haven’t canceled all your plans…

Fact: I am not a model. Not even close.

Fact: I still like to dress like one. Specifically, like one dressed to stomp down a runway.

Of course, this isn’t always possible. So when I heard Ben Sherman was doing a line with PPQ – a British brand similar to Anna Sui that puts Agyness Deyn and Iekeleine Stange on its catwalk – I was curious.

So I zoomed across the street to the Ben Sherman store in Soho, and started getting dressed.

Here’s the verdict: The dresses (a range of five inspired by each decade from the ’60s until now…) fit VERY differently – while the ’70s and ’00 dress were flowy, the ’60s mini dress and ’90s ska dress were skin tight. That’s actually really good news, since it means each dress will fit a few different body types.

The other bonus? There’s only 300 of each dress in the world, so your chances of crashing into someone else wrecking your fashion moment is pretty slim.

In the end I went with the white ’00 dress (at left), because even though it didn’t make me look like a model, I did feel pretty sexy.

“Oh,” said Dana as I left the store, “Gwyneth Paltrow just wore that one to Jay-Z’s wedding.”

Okay, so much for my theory about nobody else rocking your favorite new dress… but I guess for Gwyneth, I can deal.

xo faran

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Art trivia:

Keith Haring’s birthday is May 4.

To celebrate, the city of New York has commissioned an homage to the Manhattan street star with a giant mural on East Houston Street, between The Bowery and Second Avenue – right on the edge of Soho, where Keith Haring used to live / paint / play.

The mural is still in progress, but we took some first shots while walking to work this morning – it’s Popsicle colored, which seems really appropriate and perfect for summer.

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Click below for a glimpse of our scary dogs, who will most certainly try to eat you if they come to the office… (more…)

If you live in New York, you may have noticed an influx of tall, sparkly, sort of crooked  looking creatures with flaxen hair and onyx eyeliner, creeping around the city.

These would be models, flown in from places we can’t pronounce for campaign season.  As we speak, ads are getting shot for Dolce + Gabbana, CK Jeans, H&M, Kenneth Cole… you name it.  And these models are their cheerleaders, their champions, their stars.

In honor of them, and the fact that they’ll be going home again soon, today’s site is one of their motherships, One Model Management.  They just redid their whole web base, and it’s pretty incredibly gorgeous, with photos of girls like Devon Aoki at left.

Today’s song of the day is Rich Girls by The Virgins, because NYLON TV Bridget and I cannot stop singing it, even though we don’t know the words.  That’s the total mark of a good song.  xo faran.

Here’s Zooey Deschanel singing at Barneys Los Angeles last night, helping the Sundance Channel and Rogan Gregory celebrate their various eco initiatives.  She’s singing from her new album, She + Him. So jealous.

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