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"   Chlo\u00EB Sevigny &amp;amp;amp; Lauren Santo Domingo Photo: Getty Images  Lauren Santo Domingo, the stylist and editor named one of the city&amp;#039;s most powerful people by New York Magazine earlier this year, is starting a shopping site. Unlike the other 5 billion that have popped up this year, it&amp;#039;s for an elite few \u2014 in more ways than one. First of all, you have to be a member. Though members can invite other members, membership to Moda Operandi won&amp;#039;t spread with Gilt-like speed across the country. The site, founded in party by former Gilt Noir director Aslaug Magnusdottir, will work in four cycles. Customers will be invited to shop the runway collections of around 50 designers just 48 hours after their debut. One will pay half of the cost immediately to reserve the item of clothing, or accessory, and then the other half when it ships four months later (that&amp;#039;s two months before it hits stores). We understood the frenzy around securing one of Burberry&amp;#039;s shearling masterpieces last fall when they did the same thing because you had three days to make a decision and the whole thing seemed nuts, but we can&amp;#039;t imagine being so swept up in securing a Proenza Schouler sandal that one a) needs to buy it six months before it&amp;#039;s out b) needs to have it in the closet while there&amp;#039;s snow on the ground and c) would shell out hundreds of dollars without seeing the item in person (because even among an elite group only a hundred or so people will have been front row at the actual show) \u2014 and we&amp;#039;re pretty hardcore fashion folk. But is this the answer to your fashion dreams? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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