![]() It was also the only place-outside the $10 sandwich corral next to the blogging pen-where I came across a few snacks that weren’t in bar form. The Mercedes-Benz lounge featured skin-care stations, plush sofas and free Champagne. The former I managed via a combination of old-Drew shamelessness and new-Drew business cards. More challenging was gaining access to the VIP suites and parties. “Oh, if you need help filling A-1-13,” I cooed during Geoffery Mac’s show at Runway Exit, “I’d love to help you out.” Cutrone told me: one need merely be overly gracious to those apple-cheeked interns wearing headsets, because they’ll be the ones frantically trying to fill up the gaps when showtime starts and someone important hasn’t arrived. The best way to be truly mysterious, of course, is to occupy a completely undeserved seat in the front row. ![]() ![]() “You can get noticed and build up some buzz just by being a little mysterious.” When I let it slip to the author and TV fixture (who’s replacing Andre Leon Talley on the forthcoming season of America’s Next Top Model) that I was determined to make myself over, during the course of this column, into an “It” girl, she chided, “Don’t try to be an ‘It’ girl, be a ‘You’ girl.” She added that Fashion Week would be useless to me as a social hunting ground, “because no one really ‘meets’ during shows.” She suggested I work on “cultivating a persona” instead.
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