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Mar 09 2012 09:00 AM ET
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Sneak Peek: Nikki Reed Gets the Fashion Week Styling Scoop

Ever wonder what happens backstage at fashion shows? The scene can be pretty chaotic, but it’s all part of the creative process, especially for the designers, makeup artists and hairstylists.

To offer fashion fans a peek into that world, TRESemmé is launching a new series, Style Setters, which goes behind the scenes at some of New York Fashion Week‘s hottest shows. Nikki Reed hosts the first nine episodes (there will be 32 in total over the course of eight months), and chats with TRESemmé Stylist Jeanie Syfu and fashion designers like Tracy Reese, Charlotte Ronson and Rebecca Minkoff.

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Feb 21 2012 12:00 PM ET
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London Fashion Week So Far: Mulberry, Burberry and Lots of Star Power

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While those of us in our east coast office are still recovering from New York Fashion Week, our British counterparts are busy stylespotting all over London for — you guessed it — London Fashion Week. Here, read up on the latest from the chic shows and star-packed front rows:

Mulberry

Mulberry celebrated another “monster” hit when its latest collection showed at London’s Claridges on Sunday morning. Greeting front row attendees such as Michelle Williams, Elizabeth Olsen and Olivia Palermo were two giant yeti creatures standing guard over the catwalk — and guests’ seats were covered in shaggy goat hide, too.

Inspired by Maurice Sendak’s book Where The Wild Things Are (with English boarding school references tossed in), the collection was a mix of delicate lace and printed dresses teamed with chunky Mongolian fur jackets and shaggy gilets. Models were sporting the latest Mulberry bag, the Del Rey, named after singer Lana Del Rey, who sat front row with her white ostrich leather bespoke edition (and performed at a private dinner later that evening). The show closed playfully with The Muppet Show theme song.

Though stars like Palermo are fashion week veterans, actress Olsen confessed to being a newbie. “This is my first Mulberry show and my second fashion show ever,” she told PEOPLE beforehand. “I have no real reason to go to them. But I’ve heard Mulberry is quirky and fun so this is really exciting!”

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Feb 20 2012 09:00 AM ET
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WATCH: Stars Celebrate Mulberry at London Fashion Week

New York Fashion Week is just a memory, but London Fashion Week is in full swing, and a slew of celebrities recently hopped the pond to see the latest in British style.

Over the weekend, Mulberry showed its fall 2012 collection at Claridge’s Hotel, with stars like Michelle Williams, Elizabeth Olsen, Lana Del Rey and Azealia Banks sitting front row (Vogue editrix Anna Wintour was there, too). The brand’s collection, inspired in part by Where the Wild Things Are, was an instant hit.

“It means everything’s game,” Olsen said of the show’s imaginative theme. “I really loved playing with the furs and the patterns and the lace and the beading.”

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Feb 17 2012 06:00 PM ET
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Rachel Zoe Talks Tiffany & Co., Her ‘Incredible’ Runway Show

Rachel Zoe for Tiffany & Co.
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She’s styled Kate Hudson, Anne Hathaway, Jennifer Garner … and now Tiffany. Tiffany & Co., that is. The iconic jewelry store recently asked the celebrity stylist to create stunning windows at its New York, Beverly Hills, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Singapore and London stores, and the new mom was much obliged.

“Doing this collaboration has been one of the most extraordinary experiences of my life, certainly of my career,” she told reporters Thursday during an unveiling ceremony in New York. Zoe designed five jewelry-filled windows, each showcasing a particular decade of glamour. Spanning from the 1930s to the 1970s, they include lots of diamonds — and, in the 1960s window, Elizabeth Taylor’s Fleur de Mer brooch.

The project was timed to coincide with the Oscars, an event Zoe knows a little something about. “This is clearly different than dressing a person, because you’re dealing with a small space, trying to convey a message and style using different pieces,” she explained. “But jewelry, for me, almost always sets the tone for the decade that I’m trying to reflect when I’m dressing a woman.”

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Feb 17 2012 09:00 AM ET
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How Rooney Mara Inspired Calvin Klein’s Runway Show

Emma Stone and Rooney Mara
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The models on the Calvin Klein runway at New York Fashion Week Thursday seemed to resemble a girl we’ve seen before … like a Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.

“[Star Rooney] Mara is very much an inspiration for the collection,” Calvin Klein creative director Francisco Costa told PEOPLE before the show. “The whole spirit … that skin. Very fresh.” According to fashion stylist Mary Alice Stephenson, the Calvin Klein hair team actually went so far as to cut and dye some of the models’ hair to look like Mara’s Dragon Tattoo character, Lisbeth Salander.

Mara, in a black cutout sheath, sat front row at Thursday’s show, where she was joined by fellow rising star Emma Stone (in head-to-toe red). “It’s genius that they’re both here,” Costa said, before singing Stone’s praises. “And Mara’s talent is so incredible. She’s very today — she has this freshness, this edge. Very feminine, but urban.”

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Feb 16 2012 06:00 PM ET
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Stars Laud Michael Kors’s Fall Collection … and Kindness

Michael Kors Fashion Show
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Though Michael Kors‘s fall fashion show earned raves from most critics, there’s one person who was particularly impressed: his mother, Joan Hamburger.

“I loved this collection,” she told PEOPLE after the show. “I sat all day yesterday watching it. I couldn’t wait to see it on the runway.”

Rachel Zoe agreed. “It was so gorgeous,” she raved. “There was lace and sequins and furs and chunky knits and ponchos. It was absolutely beautiful.”

Inspired by “rugged elegance” — “I’m the best après skier, not the best during skier,” Kors joked to reporters — the collection was a hit with front-row stars like Jessica Alba (joined by Paula Patton and Amber Heard, above). “What didn’t I love?” she said. “I loved the leather — that little bit of leather, little bit of naughty, with the really soft stuff. It was great.”

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Feb 16 2012 12:00 PM ET
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Stacy Keibler Eyes Possible Oscar Dresses at Marchesa Fashion Show

Stacy Keibler
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She’s worn Marchesa once already this awards season, but Stacy Keibler may choose the brand again for the Oscars after watching the company’s dreamy fall fashion show on Wednesday.

“There were so many dresses that were so beautiful that I would have loved to wear,” she told PEOPLE following the runway show. “A few spoke to me … there were a few that I sort of had my eye on.” (See our picks for Keibler below!)

Presented at the luxe Plaza Hotel near New York’s Central Park, the show contained breathtaking dresses spun of lace and tulle and made special by intricate embroidery. After the show, stylist Brad Goreski told PEOPLE the final gowns were all deserving of “a major red carpet.”

And though Jenna Dewan, Bar Refaeli and Taylor Momsen also sat front row, all eyes were on Keibler, who wore a sexy red lace dress by Marchesa’s designers, Georgina Chapman and Keren Craig. “It’s beautiful,” she raved of the confection. “A few dresses were sent to me, and this is the one that fit the best.”

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