Archive: October 17th, 2007

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As if stars needed another reason to head to Saks! The Elie Tahari boutique opened inside Saks Fifth Avenue in Beverly Hills Tuesday night and Marcia Cross, Kristen Bell, and Big Shots‘ Jessica Collins stopped by to check out Tahari’s super soft v-neck tees, cashmere sweaters, silk tops, and tailored slacks. Inside the party, Cross chatted with a girlfriend while Bell caught up with two male friends and sipped champagne. “A friend of mine actually started working with [Elie Tahari] and said ‘you’ve got to see their stuff’ and I wasn’t familiar with them before,” Bell told PEOPLE. “I think that the same year he blossomed and started having events like this and designing in a different way,” For new mom Cross, the event was even more exciting. “Can we shop tonight?” she asked PEOPLE on the way in. “I don’t get out of the house anymore, so if we couldn’t shop tonight, we’d go at nap time tomorrow.”

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BCBG Max Azria has joined the fight against breast cancer with two pairs of specially designed sunglasses in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness month. The wire frame “Hope” sunglasses feature a pink ribbon inscribed on the inside frame and can be purchased for $120 with either pink or purple lenses. Hope sunglasses will be for sale in BCBG stores until October 31st and twenty-five percent of sales from each pair will be donated to the Susan G. Komen for the Cure fund — with a minimum donation of $25,000. For more information visit bcbg.com and click here for store locations.

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Calling all Gossip Girl fans: The hunt for Serena’s enviable grey suede boots is over, and it doesn’t involve forking over your savings to get them.”“Everyone loves those boots (as seen on Blake Lively), says Gossip Girl’s costume designers Eric Daman, who also worked on Sex and the City. “They’re Chinese Laundry and I got them at DSW!” These knee-high boots come in at an affordable $99 on chineselaundry.com, and even though the ash grey pair that Serena donned are sold out on the web site, you can get the style in either black or brown. Better yet, after November 25, you can get an almost identical style boot on chineselaundry.com in the same ash grey. Who doesn’t love affordable style?

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Korres Natural Products, the popular Greek beauty brand that began in with the first homeopathic pharmacy in Athens, is setting its first flagship store in New York City’s SoHo. E! Entertainment’s Debbie Matenopolous was on hand to help open the store last week, as she has been a fan of the all-natural line for about two years. Debbie admits that the Greek writing on the bottle caught her eye, but that once she tried the products she was hooked! The host tells PEOPLE, “I have a reaction to a lot of makeup, my skin starts to get a rash, but I never had a problem with Korres — I am a huge fan of the line.” And that’s not all. The line reminds Debbie “of the homopathic stuff my mom would use when we were in Greece for the summers growing up. When I used to sunburn, she would put Greek yogurt on my face and it would act as a cooling gel — and Korres has the same thing in a bottle! Since my family is on the East Coast, and I am over in L.A. it made me feel connected.” See the new SoHo store and learn all about Korres Natural products at korres.com.

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If a celebrity has worn it, there’s a pretty good chance you’ll find it in Diane Merrick’s shop — we recently spotted Lauren Conrad shopping there on an episode of The Hills. The L.A. based store carries popular brands like Juicy Couture, Rebecca Taylor and True Religion. Until November 16th, 2007, receive 15% off the entire site with the promo code PEOPLE.

What we love at dianemerrickshop.com:

Karen Zambos “Cyia” dress, $405. With discount, $345.

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This must be wacky hosiery week in Hollywood — first, Jessica Alba’s kneesocks over tights and now Rihanna is sporting toe-less thigh-highs! We can’t decide if Rihanna’s legwear is meant to be extended leg-warmers or abbreviated tights, but we know that we could never pull off the look! But we want to know if you could. Tell us: Would you ever wear Rihanna’s thigh-highs? What do you think of the look on her?