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"   Fashion week is fun, but it&amp;#039;s also (in a brilliant, glamorous disguise) work. For those of us in the industry, it&amp;#039;s our job to go to the shows and report back on what we saw or make lists of things we&amp;#039;d like to see in the pages of the magazine. Usually, you have a couple of friends with whom you flock and with them you go to shows, to dinners, and to parties, and truly, that&amp;#039;s what makes Fashion Week the most fun. Otherwise, it would be a very lonely month in hotel rooms with a jam-packed schedule. This time around, my usual cohorts are not in Paris, so it&amp;#039;s been a bit lonely without someone at my side.  Enter Dries van Noten. I walked in to 7 Place Vendome, which is where a lot of major shows happen, and I found established fashion journalist and friend Lynn Yaeger. Happy doesn&amp;#039;t even begin to describe how it felt to see a friendly face. We talked about the week and where we staying and what show we were going to and such. I love knowing Lynn. She has been in the business for for over thirty years and is best known for her time as the fashion reporter for the Village Voice. And over the span of her career she has contributed to dozens of major, major publications, and still does on a regular basis.  So as the show went on, we discussed our thoughts of the collection, and not only did I have a friend in tow, but I also had one of the greatest fashion personalities of our time by my side.  Oh and, by the way, the jewels at Dries were to die for.   \u2014Rebecca Suhrawardi Austin Follow ELLE on Twitter. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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