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"Bye Bye Paris Fashion Week, kisses"
Lily Donaldson leaves the Louis Vuitton show

Dree Hemingway leaves the Karl Lagerfeld show

Lily Donaldson wearing a blazer by Helmut Lang. She was super cool. As I saw her approaching, I shouted out "Lilly" then paused..."I took your photo in Paris at the Alexander Wang party" she nodded her head, put her bags down and to the side, and smiled.

Rising Star from Ukraine Naty Chabanenko on left as seen here with her gal pal Vlada Roslyakova. Notice Vlada has what I think is a Canon Power Shot in tow. The next models street style photographer competitor?? Gasp!

Kelly Osbourne hosted the amfAR event at the W Hotel Union Square last night

CFDA Award winner Jason Wu presented awards

Performance Artistry was the rule of the night

Contortions of every artistic variety filled the stage

A Human Pretzel steals the limelight

The judge panel made up from the likes of Edward Enninful to Paper Magazine's Mickey Boardman rule a unanimous 10

Isolated shot of Kelly Osbourne

A happy Derek Blasberg with an ever friendly Lily Donaldson

Last night at the W Hotel Union Square, the American Foundation For Aids Research--better known as amfAR--held a gala in support of Aids Research leading up to the World AIDS Day on December 1st.

Fashion's A list showed up in droves, not only to enjoy festivities that W Hotel charitably contributed to, but to participate in presenting and judging the performance events of the evening. Lead by the Hostess with the Mostess, Kelly Osbourne, performers gyrated and moved in ways that would make Olympic Atheletes drool.

There were 5 seperate contests on the runway, from which the judge panel consisting of Fergie, Mickey Boardman, and Edward Enninful to name a few voted for their favorites on a 10 point scale system.

When winners were selected, presenters from fashion's A-list gave a W-plaque to the winner. Jason Wu, Zac Posen, and even Bryan Boy presented winners with their awards.

After the contest was over, visitors headed to W's basement bar to finish the night with an amazing after party. However, the most important message of the evening was not so much about having fun for the sake of fun, but having fun for the sake of AIDS research, fueled by amfAR.

What a pleasure it was to run into FORD Supermodel of the World winner Hyoni Kang (In Lacoste campaign alongside Tanya Dziahileva shot by Terry Richardson) and Alexina Graham (Burberry campaign alongside Lily Donaldson shot by Mario Testino). We had a rip roaring good time walking from Soho to the West Village as you can see from the photos. Just to let you know, Hyoni is pronounced with two syllables (hyo-knee), not with three syllables (hee-yo-knee).

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I thought I'd throw in the last scan just for fun as I personally believe there is a grain of truth to handwriting analysis. While it's not substitute for old fashioned due diligence when it comes to employment hiring practices and other important matters, handwriting analysis does serve a purpose in it's proper time and place. This happens to be the proper time and place--just having a GOOD time.

Notice how Hyoni underlines her signature and then ornaments it with a star? It makes sense considering how she's so well dressed doesn't it (dress and sandals)? And notice the sharp points in Alexina's "h" and "m" in her last name? That's anayltical....think.think.think.

Kate King (Canada/FORD, NY) walked Wang in her first season ever FW11

New York Fashion Week is here and from within the modeling industry, everyone's eyes are wide open to spot the next big face of the season. BCBG Max Azria on Day 2 will often set a precedent, followed by Alexander Wang on Day 3. The big question about Wang's show is, "Who will open Alexander Wang?" Wang has recently set a precedent with discovering The New Face of the season. I wish I could say it was me (ha) as he (Alexander Wang) often remembers me when I wear my Marc Jacob's silk georgette twill top with built in bow tie (shot his party at Paris Fashion Week wearing that and then a year later he recalled it), but alas reality sets in.

Wang wasn't always the hit wonder for models though. Up until he got the CFDA Top 10 nomination, he was casting more unknown girls. Taking a quick look at the history of who opened Alexander Wang therafter, this is what we get:

SS08 Noot Sear
FW08 Freja Beha Erichsen
SS09 Raquel Zimmerman
FW09 Natasha Poly
SS10 Mirte Maas
FW10 Natalia Vodianova
SS11 Britt Maren
FW11 Aymeline Valade

Is it any wonder with A-listers like Freja and Raquel opening in the past, that when a new face gets the first impression look in a show chalked full of A-list models and alpha editors now, the new face gains noteworthy public recognition in the modeling industry? Or when a new face walks the show at all for that matter...

Hang with me here for just a couple of more minutes. If you take a look at the other models who get cast for Wang, you will see a lineup full of A-listers. Out of curiosity, I wanted to see who The Real Queen of the Alexander Wang runway was. Which model has walked Alexander Wang MORE than any other model? So I went back in the archives at both style.com and vogue.com till they didn't have any older shows than SS17 and made a mini Runway IQ tracker which you can play with below.

Without further ado, the winners are:

1. Hanne Gaby Odiele (Ford) 8 looks
2. Freja Beha Erichsen (IMG) 7 looks
Kasia Struss (Women) 7 looks

3. Abbey Lee Kershaw (Next)6 looks
Alla Kostromichova (Women) 6 looks
Lily Donaldson (IMG) 6 looks
Magdalena Frackowiak (DNA) 6 looks

What's the point of all this? Well as the saying goes, you are judged by the company you keep and if you are keeping company in Alexander Wang's line up, a designer celebrated by the CFDA and getting press left and right for his companies sales, you are in good company.