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THE RARIFIED AIR IN THE ZEGNA STORE . . . SMELLS EVEN BETTER!

Anne_Zegna.jpgRight now the only place in the world to get the new Zegna scent—though it's for men, if you’re a woman who at all likes men’s fragrances, you should try it, as it’s fresh without being sting-y or mosquito-spray-ish, and sexy without being too sweet, spicy or overpowering. It’s complex and sophisticated and utterly unavailable anywhere else until September. We all died over Anna Zegna’s gorgeously tailored summer suit—the most feminine suit I have ever seen, yet not a frill or a button in sight, and the most comfortable-looking thing I have ever seen. The combination of the suit and the scent and all the refined shirts and suits and ties hanging cooly on their perfect wooden hangers sent me into a kind of La Dolce Vita overdrive for the rest of the day.

—Jean Godfrey-June
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FROM: The Beauty Department

BURNING QUESTION: SOLVE A BEAUTY EDITOR DEBATE!

jean.jpgSay you read ( and look at pictures) of a new fragrance, or a gorgeous new line of lipsticks, on a blog. On several blogs. The fragrance and the lipsticks, are, of course, not yet available for several months, but they’re news and they’re now on your radar.

Then there they are again, several months later, featured in your favorite magazine. Are you already over them?

—Jean Godfrey-June, beauty director
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And Cindy McCain's vampire name is....

Because of HBO's new show True Blood, I've become obsessed with VAMPIRES, googling them in my cubicle while my colleagues do actual work.

I've accrued extraordinarily useful information—I know now about the Chubacabra, the spiny-backed bloodsucker of South American livestock—I'll never want for a cocktail party icebreaker again! My new favorite website is the Vampire Name Generator: You plug in your name and it spits out a new befanged identity for you. I, Cat Marnell, become Anne Keat, Mother of Gypsies—of good humor, but dangerous. Mere mortal Britney Spears becomes Iolanthe Beau Pre, terror of Eastern Europe. The shifty Cindy McCain becomes Sultana of Scandinavia, or the Mother of the Crows—wise and shrewd. (True, true, and TRUE, I say!)

Anne Keat has put herself on the waiting list for Piha Black Color Fever Lip Gloss, the latest edition to Lanc??me's Omigod-I-must-get-on-the-waiting list-NOW Collection.* You layer it over the included red lipstick to deepen the color (though I feel a TRUE creature of the night would wear it solo).

—Cat Marnell, beauty assistant

*Call 212-705-2886 to get on Bloomingdale's list (only the flagship New York location); otherwise, watch lancome-usa.com like a hawk come November.

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