Archive: April 9th, 2007

When Audrina Patridge, Whitney Port and Lauren Conrad hosted The Hills finale party last week on MTV, they shed their California street style for chic party dresses. Lauren started the night in the “Stella” grape leaves print Plenty Frock by Tracy Reese, $250, available at the Tracy Reese store (call 212-807-0505) — get her look for less in this daisy short dress, $20, forever21.com. Whitney opted for a black sequin Ashish mini she recently purchased at Henri Bendel, $898 (call 1-800-H-BENDEL to order) — get her look for less with this almost identical sequin mini, $86, at asos.com. Audrina kept it simple in an older black Michelle Mason jersey dress — get her look with this lightweight silk jersey dress, $119, at bebe.com. Even if it’s just to see what the girls wear, we certainly are excited for next season. Tell us: Are you a Hill’s fan?

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It’s almost as bad as a breakup when you find out that your favorite shade of lipstick has been taken off the market. When Rose McGowan found out that her must-have shade of MAC lipstick, Pink Packed, was being discontinued, she was floored. “She always has it with her all the time,” says her makeup artist Jake Bailey, “it’s her favorite!” She even wore it to ShoWest in Las Vegas. Lucky for Rose, she’s got some connections, and MAC has made six tubes of Pink Packed just for her! But those of us with a bit less star power can also buy lifetime supplies of our favorite cosmetics. MAC actually has a Gone But Not Forgotten program that offers discontinued items to be sold to the customer directly — Nars, Chanel and Revlon have similiar programs. Try surfing the web for the many sites that specialize in sold-out cosmetics or turn to Three Custom Color, a N.Y.C. company that specializes in replicating lipsticks and foundations from even the smallest sample or from their existing archive of products. Maybe there really is hope in a jar!

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Katie was holding a bag in the recent Star Tracks photo, Fit to Work. Where is it from? It’s super cute!- Stacie

Katie Holmes clearly has an enviable bag collection, from her Balenciaga to her Armani! So when she was spotted going to fittings for her new movie, she had to have another covetable bag — a brand-new Prada leather satchel that dressed up her trendy wide-leg J Brand “Joplin” jeans. The bag is available for $3,330 at select Prada boutiques (call 888-977-1900), and the jeans are $230 at barneyscoop.com. Check out our more affordable bag options below.

BCBG Girls brown satchel, $192, zappos.com

Marc Ecko “Hold On” Satchel, $59, macys.com

Click here to see more photos, news and a full bio of Katie Holmes, and click here to discuss her style in Off the Rack.

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Colorful, retro and reversible! Right Bank Babies dresses and wide leg pants are perfect for babies and toddlers whose job it is to make messes all day long. Celebrity moms like Jennifer Garner and Courtney Cox-Arquette, who own the Sophia style dress, love these two-in-one outfits for their little ones. Heidi Klum’s daughter Leni even has a reversible print dress named after her! Marcia Cross’s daughters got the Sophia style dress from her Desperate Housewives costar Joy Lauren. The wide leg pants and dresses are perfect for layering and the dresses morph into smock tops as your child grows — pair with leggings or jeans and your child is ready for the school bus! From bright florals to playful sock monkeys, there’s a design suited for every baby taste. Right Bank Babies dresses retail for $47 and pants for $55, available at rightbankbabies.com.

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We’ve been so busy tracking Britney Spear’s ever-growing hat collection that we barely registered that the brown-eyed star had started wearing bright blue contacts! With her divorce settlement worked out, this seems like a natural moment for Britney to try out a new look, but we are so used to seeing Britney with dark eyes that we can’t decide which we like better. We want to know your opinion. Tell us: Which do you like better on Britney? Her natural brown eye color or her new baby blues?

Click here to see more photos, news and a full bio of Britney Spears, and click here to discuss her style in Off the Rack.

Photo: REUTERS/Eric Thayer/landov; finalpixx

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