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"Teen Vogue investigates the extremes to which fashion fanatics will go to get the latest designer fast-fashion collaboration.Manic Panic: Shoppers brave the rain outside a Paris H&amp;amp;M for the opening of Sonia Rykiel's collection with the swedish retailer.\n\nPhoto: Getty Images\n\nTeen Vogue investigates the extremes to which fashion fanatics will go to get the latest designer fast-fashion collaboration.\n\n_\n\nAnyone following the November 20 opening of the much-anticipated Lanvin for H&amp;amp;M collection on Twitter got a rather unsettling surprise. \"There was a STABBING for cutting in line,\" declared one tweeter, reporting from a store location in midtown Manhattan. \"3 people in ambulances. 2 in handcuffs.\"\n\n Could it be? Stabbing someone for a dress? (Albeit an impossibly chic, reasonably priced one.) Within hours, H&amp;amp;M reps took to Twitter themselves to declare that accounts of such an incident were false. No one had been stabbed. But for many, the mere fact that the rumor had been started was enough to ask: Has the hoopla surrounding designer fast-fashion collaborations crossed the line?\n\n It's certainly reached an all-time high. While there might not have been any slashings, the line's debut drove shoppers across the country to extreme measures\u2014lining up outside as much as 24 hours in advance, sleeping in cars in mall parking lots, and fueling up on Starbucks coffee from makeshift stands. (To quote fashion blogger Bryanboy, describing the crowd outside his local H&amp;amp;M: \"HARDCORE!!!\") This on the heels of Rodarte's 55-piece collection almost completely selling out hours after going live on Target's Web site, and band jackets from Stella McCartney's one-off collection for GapKids disappearing from shelves the day of their arrival.\n\n_"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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