Fashion Week is Here!

And we're loving it! Herewith, some of our favorite looks (and celebs!) from the shows so far.

Much more to come, including our episode covering last night's Fashion's Night Out.

Left, A model walks the runway wearing a Valerie Mayen design at the Project Runway Spring 2011 fashion show.  

Below right, the Farah Angsana Spring 2011 fashion show. Photos by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for Mercedes-Benz.

Above, Will and Grace's Eric McCormack and his wife, Janet (photo by Frazer Harrison, Getty Images for Mercedes-Benz).

Above, 30 Rock's Katrina Bowden (photo by Michael Buckner, courtesy of Getty); Tinsley Mortimer in the Richie Rich show (photo by by Frazer Harrison, Getty Images for Mercedes-Benz).

Above, Andre Leon Talley, of Vogue, in a 2011 Volkswagen Jetta, getting around Fashion's Night Out courtesy of Volkswagen. Right, real live "Ken Dolls" pose in front of the flatbed truck that brought them around on a flatbed with the slogan: "Catch me if you Ken!"

Below, Gossip Girl's Michelle Trachtenberg with designer Charlotte Ronson. Below right, with Charlotte's sister, celebrity DJ Sam Ronson, all at the launch of the I (Heart) Ronson collection at JCPenney in Herald Square. Party hosted by HobNob Wines.

New York Insider Meets the Gossip Girls

It may be true that there's no such thing as a free lunch, but they never said anything about supper. All this week, Upper East Side restaurant Park Avenue Winter has been running a fun-spirited promotion: complimentary dinner and drinks for any woman who shows up in a private-school uniform. The sounds-too-good-to-be-true offer was launched to celebrate the eatery's appearance on Gossip Girl on Monday. Nightly, more than 200 of the show's biggest fans have been popping in to take advantage of the generous promotion, which concludes tonight. Contrary to what you might have guessed, the resto did not yank pricey entrées such as lobster from the menu; instead, owner Michael Stillman decided that it was important for these lucky patrons to get the full Park Avenue Winter experience. And experience it they did. Both of the establishment's dining areas, along with the bar, were jam-packed with giddy women dressed in hiked-up pleated skirts and white blouses. It was a girls' night out unlike any this city has ever seen. During our visit, we taped an episode of New York Insider's soon-to-be-launched video series and had the chance to interview many of the patrons, women who'd shown up not knowing fully what to expect, but loving every minute of their experience. To be among the first to know when we post our video coverage of last night's Gossipgirl-apalooza, click on our contact form and we'll send you an e-mail alert when it goes live. Then you'll really have something to "gossip" about.

For Gossip Girls, Real and Imagined

Private school girls, this is your lucky week. (If you actually like to eat, that is.) Swank Park Avenue Winter (the restaurant that changes its name, décor and menu with the seasons) throws open its doors this week to women of all ages who arrive wearing a school uniform. Wearers of plaid skirts and white blouses (and every other variation thereof) will be treated to a free meal. And for those ladies who have surpassed the ripe old age of 21, the eatery will also include two free drinks. The unusual promotion has been devised to celebrate the restaurant's inclusion in tonight's episode of Gossip Girl and will continue the rest of the week. Bet you're wishing you hadn't given your old school duds to Goodwill now. Didn't Sister Mary Alice Magillicuddy tell you you'd come to love your uniform one day?

The Past is So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades

A celebrity wearing sunglasses indoors is usually trying to hide something....too many late nights out in a row, a black eye, bad Botox....but last evening, on the Lower East Side, celebrities were to be forgiven for donning dark glasses. In fact, they were encouraged to do so. Carrera, the company synonymous with big gaudy sunglasses that are all over vintage 1980s movies (as well as the faces of Gwen Stefani, Paris Hilton and Daniel Craig) took the wraps off its vintage collection at a party at the Angel Orensanz Foundation, a one-time temple turned shrine of all things cool and hip. Among the big names to pop in to see the collection—and to check out a special performance by 1980s punk icon Deborah Harry—included Taylor Momsen of Gossip Girl and actor Danny Aiello. Other attendees included model Jamie Burke, singer Dani D, rapper Lil Mama and fashion designer Patricia Field.

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When Joe Six-Pack Met Joe the Plumber

There were a batch of Joes, but no average Joes (or Janes) at the National Arts Club last night, where a "Heroes & Villians" Halloween ball brought out creative types aplenty. Among our favorite costumes: a frightening duo from AIG; a moose impaired by Sarah Palin; the Bailout Package; a Gossip Girl; and a regal young woman who called herself the Duchess of Democracy. Outside the Club, the streets of New York were filled with revelers in seriously clever get-ups. If only Halloween fell on Friday every year.

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