15 Types of People You Always See at Fashion Week

1. The girl just standing around outside the venue, playing with her phone and waiting for someone to take her picture.
She may or may not have a ticket to the actual show.

2. The elementary school kid in the front row.
Her mom is an editor.

3. The intern filling in for the magazine editor who couldn't make it.
She's terrified that at any moment she will be identified as an impostor and told to leave.

4. The person wearing seasonally-inappropriate clothes to attract more street style photographers.
Chiffon in a snowstorm and fur in a heat wave — anything ridiculous, really.

5. The crowd of fashion editors standing outside the show complaining about how tedious fashion week is.
They are just sooooo over it. Until someone asks to take their picture, that is.

6. The middle-aged buyer blocking everyone's view by taking pictures with his or her giant iPad.
Taking pictures with an iPad being the fashion-tech equivalent of reading the large-print edition of Reader's Digest.

7. The tween holding court in the front row with a gaggle of her best frenemies, all of them clad in completely age-inappropriate outfits.
The one in the middle is the designer's daughter and this is her biggest social moment of the year.

8. The tourist asking anyone who will listen how he or she can get tickets to the show.
Not that anyone even acknowledges their existence. FYI, 99% of these shows are invite-only.

9. The VIP client invited by the designers to thank her for spending ridiculous sums of money at their stores.
Her tan is real, but her boobs are definitely fake.

10. The street style photographer with the special edition Fendi bag and the colorful fur camera strap.

She's the street style photographer the other street style photographers take pictures of during the lull between shows.

11. The women in the ridiculously high heels trying to maintain her balance as she crosses the cobblestone streets of the meatpacking district to snag an available cab.
Until someone in flats beats her to it, leaving her stranded in the middle of the street, unsure what to do next.

12. The C-list celebrity, desperate for attention.
She sits there smiling for the camera, hoping no B-list celebrities show up and steal the spotlight.

13. The smug publicist silently orgasming every time he or she utters the words "you're not on the list."
Power is an aphrodisiac, after all, even list-based power with an iPad and a headset.

14. The irrationally angry New Yorker cursing the crowd in front of the show venue for blocking the sidewalk.
Because having to step into the street to get around the waiting editors and photographers is just, like, the worst thing ever.

15. That lady with the bob who's always wearing sunglasses.
Whatever her name is. Ann Something.

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Would You Pay This Gobsmacking Amount of Money to Attend the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show?

Tickets for the Victoria's Secret's annual fashion show, which will be held in London for the first time ever this year, are reportedly selling for £9,995 ($16,663). Also want to go to the after party? That ups your cost by $3,000. For a total of $20,000. To see some models in wings walk on some glitter and then have champagne and a tuna skewer in the same nightclub as them after.

Cornucopia Events is selling these tickets. As part of one of their VS show *~SpEcIaL pAcKaGeS*~ they can also put you up at a fancy hotel, drive you to and fro in a limo, and make you restaurant reservations somewhere cLaSsy*~.

They're charging $20,000 for all this, the Telegraph reports, "to keep out the riff raff." Though, who are they fooling? The Situation can obviously afford this.

For those of us who are not the Situation, and for whom attending is not even a remote possibility, the show will be televised on CBS.

Follow Megan on Twitter.

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Miley Cyrus Is Bringing Something Major to the Fashion World

According to MTV, Miley Cyrus and Jeremy Scott will be teaming up for the designer's spring/summer 2015 presentation next month at New York Fashion Week. Scott was tight-lipped about exactly what the collaboration will entail, but claimed the collection is built around "cool kids," each with his/her own distinct look, as opposed to the runway model clones that fill most fashion shows.

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Lupita Nyong'o Lands Her First Fashion Campaign

Breakout actress-of-the-moment and fashion plate Lupita Nyong'o fronts Miu Miu's spring/summer 2014 ads. That's one major film role (12 Years a Slave) under her belt/tasseled sash, and one major fashion campaign to boot — pretty impressive stats for someone fresh on the Hollywood scene. In addition to being strikingly beautiful (miutiful?), the ads and her new partnership with the fashion brand presumably mean she's all set in terms of her awards-season wardrobe.

Miu Miu's campaign imagery also features Elle Fanning, Elizabeth Olsen, and Bella Heathcote. See their photos here. 

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Photo credit: courtesy of Miu Miu

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2013 Red Carpet Fashion Awards

Take a look back at the year in celebrity selfies.

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The Best Way To Break Into the Fashion Industry

Cosmopolitan.com’s Style Editor, Charles Manning, answers your questions about breaking into the fashion industry, vintage furs and how to keep pointy-toed shoes pointy in this week’s Fashion Q&A.

Q: As a graduate from a Fashion School, which path should I take to “easily” enter the fashion world?

A: Fashion is one of the most competitive industries in the world, so there really is no easy way into it. That said, if you really want to work in a creative field like fashion, apart from interning and networking, the best thing you can do is just start creating. Start a blog. Build a following on social media. Dress your friends and take pictures. There are fashion bloggers who make millions of dollars a year doing just that, so who's to say you can't do the same? If nothing else, you'll be building a portfolio of work you can show to prospective employers, which will definitely give you a leg up during the highly competitive interview process.

Q: I would never buy a new fur coat, but I got a vintage one from an Army-Navy store. The problem is it has a musty smell to it. Are there ways to get that smell out without taking it to a furrier?A: Real furs are very delicate, so you really do need to take them to a professional for cleaning. Unfortunately, according to Leroy Thomas, a fur- and leather-cleaning expert at Madame Paulette in New York, many vintage fur coats are often too damaged to be cleaned at all. "They could look fine from the outside," he says, "but if they haven't been stored properly (in a cool, dry place), the skin could be dried out, making it hard and brittle and almost impossible to clean or repair." Assuming your vintage fur is free of cracks, stiff spots and tears, try asking a local fur retailer for suggestions of anyone in your area who specializes in cleaning furs. "A lot of people will claim they can clean your fur, but all they are really doing is fluffing it up with a little steam and spraying it to look shiny," Thomas says. So make sure you are sending your fur to someone legit.And, of course, there is always faux fur, which is both stylish and easy to clean.

Cream Faux Fur Scarf, BCBGENERATION, $38; Black-and-White Faux Fur Jacket, CLUB MONACO, $199; Black Faux Fur Jacket, H&M, $80

Q: With pointy-toe flats, how do you keep the tip from turning upward, making your once chic pointed flats look like elf shoes?

A: David Mesquita, vice president of Leather Spa in New York, suggests stuffing pointy toes with tissue paper to help them maintain their shape throughout the day and inserting pointy-toe shoe trees as soon as you take them off to prevent creases from setting in. You can also use a regular shoe tree and just add fresh paper to fill in the toe. "Unfortunately," Mesquita says, "once those creases start to appear, there is really nothing you can do to get rid of them, so proper maintenance is important."

Clockwise from top left: Nude Sandals, SAM EDELMAN, $110 ; Black Double-Strap Mary Janes, ZARA, $80; Silver Bow Flats, COACH, $198; Snakeskin Flats, CLUBMONACO, $229

Do you have fashion or style questions? Email them to styledbycosmo@gmail.com or tweet your questions to our Style Editor @charlesemanning.

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The Coolest Accessories at Fashion Week

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Model Confessional: “Why I Quit Fashion Week”

Modeling isn't all drinking Champagne on yachts and being told you're fabulous. Runway modeling especially can be brutal. Ahead, one anonymous model shares the story of why she left the runways.

“I did Fashion Week from the ages of 18 to 21, with big dreams of landing a campaign. But because it’s all about booking the right shows, when you don’t, all you do is walk away with fried hair, clogged pores, blisters and around $200 per show. Eventually, I realized that catalog and print advertising work was the way to go because the money is so good and the job isn't stressful. Until I had that epiphany, show after show, I’d have barely enough money to pay my rent, which was $1500 a month, and a book's worth of backstage horror stories to tell my mother.

Everyone thinks fashion week is crazy, but it’s really the two weeks beforehand for models that is really insane. You’re expected to go all over the city to fittings and castings. There’s no time to eat lunch. And you’re so stressed out that you’re not even hungry anyway. Yet, a designer will see an outfit on you once, wait until you leave the casting, and then call your agent and ask why you’ve gained weight. And all you can think is, Seriously?! Once, while staring at my breasts, a designer said: “Have your boobs gotten bigger?” I said, “Yes, I just started taking a new birth control pill.” This designer then told my agent that I had to switch pills or else I wouldn’t be hired. Luckily I never had any other weight issues, but some of my friends did and they lost out on a lot of work.

The hardest part of fashion week for me though was when I sat in the hair and makeup chair. My skin is sensitive and I’d breakout almost immediately after they’d apply foundation. It actually got so bad that I started carrying around my Chanel Vitalumiere Aqua Foundation to each show, asking the makeup artists to use that instead, or else my face would start to burn and I’d get an inflamed rash all over. And — ready for this? — makeup artists set the makeup with hairspray (yes, they spray hairspray in your face), which didn't help matters! So basically, my skin never had a chance to calm down because the next day, the layers-of-foundation plus hairspray would go on. And on. And on.

Oh, and you think cotton pads are soft, right? They’re not. During the day it's a lot of putting on — and wiping off — makeup with cotton pads. And there's nothing gentle about that process, especially when you get your makeup changed about five plus times a day. A Q-tip ends up feeling like a tiny knife after it’s used to straighten eye liner and get rid of smudges for the one hundredth time (a lot of the shows call for a smoky eye). Needless to say, my skin—and my eyes—looked tired, irritated, and always felt super dry after each day of shows, so I'd have to sleep wearing a mask of Cetaphil Lotion every night.

Hair was another problem. I have super fine, thin hair that is also bleached. When I was going to the shows, I wouldn't know the hairstylist and he or she didn’t care how my hair looked after eight days of torture. They’d put gel in it and then brush it out, mess it up and have to redo the whole thing all over again, hairspray the shit out of it, pull on it every which way, until it was approved by the top hairstylist on the show. I'd look down and see all of my hair on the floor—in clumps.

While, in all fairness, some tried to be gentle, the truth is, most were more concerned with getting the job done. I felt like they didn’t think about how a human was attached to the hair and that I was a mannequin head. And with all of the styles, tangles, and tight braids that I endured, I'd have to go home and throw a ton of conditioner in my hair every night. Then after each season, I'd get a few inches cut off, since it was so matted and damaged.

I also have a bad habit of biting my nails, so the manicurists often put on acrylic tips, which would make my nails thin and weak. And if I didn’t have blisters from running around to the castings, I’d get them from wearing shoes that didn’t fit. Designers only order a certain number of each size shoe and whoever gets to the casting first, gets the right shoe size. The others just have to make the pairs that are left fit.

Even though I have a lot of nightmare stories about Fashion Week, it's still a cool thing to be able to tell people that you've done. And the fact that you walked in a Prada or Oscar de la Renta show gives you good bragging rights when you're pitching yourself to a potential employer. But there comes a point when you realize that some clients don't care if you've walked in Fashion Week, and those clients are easier to work with. So once I realized that, I decided to take a walk from the runway and focus more on making money doing modeling jobs that don't have any downsides. 

—As told to Carly Cardellino. 

Photo Credit: HBO

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The Cosmo Assistants: What New York Fashion Week Is Really Like

Hannah Bibb, fashion assistant

“I just started two days ago. It’s a lot of scheduling—getting seat confirmations, making sure all the times are correct, all the invites are here, calling PR people constantly. PR people are hard. They’re your worst enemy and your best friend because they save the day.

“The craziest thing that’s happened has been delivering stuff to editors’ houses at 1 a.m., right when you finish the schedule. Or talking to PR people at 1 a.m. because they’re still awake, too—although it makes me feel better that we’re all in this together.

“My roommate is Eva Chen’s assistant at Lucky. We were texting last night at 11:30 p.m. that we were both still at the office. We come home from work and we don’t even talk to each other. It’s like: Bed.

“Shiona [Turini] and I sent my roommate and Eva cookies—because my roommate is like my best friend and Shiona is Eva’s good friend—that were like, “Happy fashion week!” They were from, um, Mama-foo-ka—something like that?

“It’s really fun though. Everyone is still up in spirits. That will probably change next week.”

Follow Hannah on Twitter and Insta @hannah_bibb.

May Hasso, fashion assistant

“I interned here twice before I got hired. As an intern, I’d get to see all the invitations and they’re, like, wedding invitations. Cardboard, bows, vibrant covers. Everything you’d ever expect a fashion event to be. So that was really cool. But I didn’t get to go to anything. I wanted to. But I was not invited.

“I was sick earlier this week. It was definitely the worst week to be sick. I got like 500 emails. I had no access to the clothes or anything on the server. I’m just drowning in stress and sweat from my boiling fever and tripping out on narcotics.

“I am constantly caffeinated at all hours of the day. I have two coffees on the train ride here and when I get here it’s the first thing I do. That’s the only way I’d get through this or I’d be sleeping right now.

“My dream shows are like, ohimgod, everything. I’d obviously love to see Chanel and all the real luxury stuff that I would not be able to go to unless I was really high ranked at the magazine. Or Céline, Balenciaga. I think they show in Paris.

“But I haven’t even been to a show! So beggars can’t be choosers. I was invited to some things right now, but…yeah. I can’t go. Maybe when I have full intern staff again. I hope HR starts approving [all the interns] so I can go to a show.

“I had an invitation to a show that was in Paris. Costume National. I was like that is so cool. I would adore to go to that show. But I’m on the other side of the country. The world, actually. So, yeah, I've been invited to things. But I'm just so busy."

Follow May on Instagram @amayyyzing.

Lauren Balsamo, Beauty Assistant

“On the way out of the office on Wednesday Leah [Wyar] handed me her ticket and said, "Richard Chai, 11 a.m." That was my first show ever. It was one of the coolest experiences.

“The way you sit is kind of weird. It wasn’t in seats. It’s like fancy bleachers and everyone is really close together. I thought, they really pack them in.

“I saw the Jonas Brothers and Rachel Zoe. I love her. But celebrities, whatever. I’m a model stalker. When you see a model—someone you feel like is a fake person—right there in front of you, it’s so cool.

“I worked backstage at the Honor show. It was super-hot and crowded. So crazy. But the PR girl knew it was my first fashion week, so she showed me around.

“The most absurd thing was how much goes on at the same time. There was this model with seven people working on her. She was getting her hair curled, her makeup done, and getting a mani and a pedi. All these arms and hands. They were exfoliating her elbows. I was like, wow, that’s crazy, but they wanted every part of her to have the whole look—fresh and dewy. They kept saying, ‘These eyebrows aren’t right’ and I thought, ‘Her eyebrows look pretty great to me!’ 

“I want to meet Karlie [Kloss]. When I meet her, I’ll probably say nothing. I’ll just take her picture. I would think of a million things to say but when it comes down to it, I’ll get nothing out.

“When I came back to the office yesterday I was like, this is in the top five coolest things I’ve ever done. I’ve always followed fashion week on Twitter and Instagram, but you don’t really know until you see it, ya know?”

Follow Lauren on Twitter @LaurBals and Instagram @laurenbalsamo. 

Photo credit: Kathleen Fox Kamphausen

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The 16 Best Overheard Quotes From Fashion

1. (Phone rings mid-show.) "I have to take this, it's my dentist."

2. Gay guy (watching men's show): "That's the one I like"

Female friend: "The what?"

Gay guy: "The guy."

3. "I 100% have not even been looking at the clothes." — Woman watching a men's show.

4. "There's cute boyfriend blazer, then there's just boyfriend's blazer. This falls into the later."

5. "Where's the bar?"

6. "This is way too claustrophobic for me."

7. "It's that time of day." — Girl in strappy high heels as she whips out a pair of ballet flats from her purse.

8. "There is absolutely no reason why we should have an odd number of shoes — count again." — Show coordinator backstage, overseeing packing of runway clothes.

9. "I mean Rihanna didn't show up, soooo…"

10. "Maj. How much does that cost?" —Woman, taken by a runway look.

11. "It's so funny when people try to be provocative and it's just confusing."

12. "I was on vacation, and, like, I don't have an assistant right now."

13. "And then I got there and there was a line! It was horrible."

14. "That blue dress looks like Jasmine from Aladdin."

15. "I can't live with you unless we get my Fox rug from my parent's house in Italy."

16. "You're honestly the worst person to bring to a party. I'm never inviting you to anything ever again."

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Model Confessional: “Why I Quit Fashion Week”

Modeling isn't all drinking Champagne on yachts and being told you're fabulous. Runway modeling especially can be brutal. Ahead, one anonymous model shares the story of why she left the runways.

“I did Fashion Week from the ages of 18 to 21, with big dreams of landing a campaign. But because it’s all about booking the right shows, when you don’t, all you do is walk away with fried hair, clogged pores, blisters and around $200 per show. Eventually, I realized that catalog and print advertising work was the way to go because the money is so good and the job isn't stressful. Until I had that epiphany, show after show, I’d have barely enough money to pay my rent, which was $1500 a month, and a book's worth of backstage horror stories to tell my mother.

Everyone thinks fashion week is crazy, but it’s really the two weeks beforehand for models that is really insane. You’re expected to go all over the city to fittings and castings. There’s no time to eat lunch. And you’re so stressed out that you’re not even hungry anyway. Yet, a designer will see an outfit on you once, wait until you leave the casting, and then call your agent and ask why you’ve gained weight. And all you can think is, Seriously?! Once, while staring at my breasts, a designer said: “Have your boobs gotten bigger?” I said, “Yes, I just started taking a new birth control pill.” This designer then told my agent that I had to switch pills or else I wouldn’t be hired. Luckily I never had any other weight issues, but some of my friends did and they lost out on a lot of work.

The hardest part of fashion week for me though was when I sat in the hair and makeup chair. My skin is sensitive and I’d breakout almost immediately after they’d apply foundation. It actually got so bad that I started carrying around my Chanel Vitalumiere Aqua Foundation to each show, asking the makeup artists to use that instead, or else my face would start to burn and I’d get an inflamed rash all over. And — ready for this? — makeup artists set the makeup with hairspray (yes, they spray hairspray in your face), which didn't help matters! So basically, my skin never had a chance to calm down because the next day, the layers-of-foundation plus hairspray would go on. And on. And on.

Oh, and you think cotton pads are soft, right? They’re not. During the day it's a lot of putting on — and wiping off — makeup with cotton pads. And there's nothing gentle about that process, especially when you get your makeup changed about five plus times a day. A Q-tip ends up feeling like a tiny knife after it’s used to straighten eye liner and get rid of smudges for the one hundredth time (a lot of the shows call for a smoky eye). Needless to say, my skin—and my eyes—looked tired, irritated, and always felt super dry after each day of shows, so I'd have to sleep wearing a mask of Cetaphil Lotion every night.

Hair was another problem. I have super fine, thin hair that is also bleached. When I was going to the shows, I wouldn't know the hairstylist and he or she didn’t care how my hair looked after eight days of torture. They’d put gel in it and then brush it out, mess it up and have to redo the whole thing all over again, hairspray the shit out of it, pull on it every which way, until it was approved by the top hairstylist on the show. I'd look down and see all of my hair on the floor—in clumps.

While, in all fairness, some tried to be gentle, the truth is, most were more concerned with getting the job done. I felt like they didn’t think about how a human was attached to the hair and that I was a mannequin head. And with all of the styles, tangles, and tight braids that I endured, I'd have to go home and throw a ton of conditioner in my hair every night. Then after each season, I'd get a few inches cut off, since it was so matted and damaged.

I also have a bad habit of biting my nails, so the manicurists often put on acrylic tips, which would make my nails thin and weak. And if I didn’t have blisters from running around to the castings, I’d get them from wearing shoes that didn’t fit. Designers only order a certain number of each size shoe and whoever gets to the casting first, gets the right shoe size. The others just have to make the pairs that are left fit.

Even though I have a lot of nightmare stories about Fashion Week, it's still a cool thing to be able to tell people that you've done. And the fact that you walked in a Prada or Oscar de la Renta show gives you good bragging rights when you're pitching yourself to a potential employer. But there comes a point when you realize that some clients don't care if you've walked in Fashion Week, and those clients are easier to work with. So once I realized that, I decided to take a walk from the runway and focus more on making money doing modeling jobs that don't have any downsides. 

—As told to Carly Cardellino. 

Photo Credit: HBO

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Fashion Brand Bongo Heads to the Beauty Aisle

Even though Bongo is primarily seen as a junior brand, you don't have be a tween to flaunt their hot new beauty line exclusively sold at KMart.

In stores now, Bongo Beauty consists of 40 products all together, including 14 nail polishes, 14 lip glosses, two fragrances—'Day' and 'Night'—four body mists, and four body lotion ancillaries that complement the body mists.

And while you'll love the on-trend nail polish and lip shades and the upscale-scented spritzes, the prices are something to behold, too. Ranging from $3 to $15, there's no chance of breaking the bank with these beauty finds. Pretty cool, right?

So Cosmo girls, will you be heading to KMart to score some Bongo Beauty? Let us know which products are your fave, if so!

Photo: Courtesy Images

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Sexy Fashion 14 Different Ways

A fitted blazer is the perfect finishing touch to any outfit. Plus, it can make any relaxed look instantly sexy thanks to its body-hugging cut. 

H&M Blazer, $50, H&M

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Meet Our New Fashion Director: Aya Kanai

In case you didn't know, we recently hired a new fashion director: Aya Kanai, who's fierce and just as fiercely-dressed.

And we couldn't wait another second to introduce her to you!

Here's the 411: Aya was born and raised in New York City and graduated from Oberlin College, where she received a degree in Visual Art. 

For the past ten years, she's been contributing to the contemporary fashion industry in print editorial, celebrity dressing, online retail, and advertising. Her past nine to fives have included: Senior fashion editor at Teen Vogue magazine and fashion director at Nylon magazine; head stylist at shopbop.com; dressing celebrities such as Ashley Olsen, Jennifer Lawrence, Michelle Williams, Kirsten Dunst, Sienna Miller, and Kirsten Stewart; and styling advertising campaigns for global brands such as Microsoft, Cole Haan, Adidas, Converse for Target, Virgin Mobile and Forever21. Needless to say, she's got some stellar experience.

Okay, now for the highly-anticipated Q&A:

Your signature style is?: "Crisp graphic prints, black and white with colorful accents, military-inspired details, and a love of shoes and bags. It's not a signature look [per se], but those are some of the wardrobe elements that I am always drawn to." 

If you could only wear one thing for the rest of your life, what would it be?: "[My] Balenciaga leather jacket. It's the most perfect item I own."

What was the major fashion moment of your life?: "Attending the Alexander McQueen show in Paris. There are very few events in your life that you can describe as 'magic,' and this was one of them.

When it comes to photoshoots, when I was starting out as a stylist, I had the opportunity to dress Ashley Olsen for an editorial piece, right as she was starting The Row. We talked a lot about the 't-shirt line' (as she called it) that she and her sister were starting. It was inspiring to talk to a young woman who was clearly very clever and business-minded. She knows exactly what she liked and did not like—she has a distinct point of view." 

What's your fashion game plan for the new Cosmo?: "My deepest wish for the pages of our magazine is to show our reader what's next in fashion and how to wear it. I plan to inspire her to shop, to dream, and to always remember that fashion, at its best, is about bringing fun, color, and expression into each day of your life."

What's your dream fashion shoot entail?: "There are too many dream photo shoots to name just one, but I will say overall that I want our reader to feel connected to each fashion story we do. I want her to feel that she can see a piece of her best self in our pages. This means we must find inspiring and different people to feature in our pages. Women with cool jobs and careers, students in college, people to inspire, and people to represent the fun of fashion in a variety of different ways." 

Stilettos, sneakers, flats…what's your go-to shoe?: "I love the Chloé studded ankle boots, the Tabitha Simmons Creeper ankle boots, and Chanel smoking slippers." 

What do you think is a major fashion faux paus?: "Fashion victimhood. Learning about trends is for the purpose and joy of cherry-picking what works for your body, your style, and your life—not for being a slave to consumer culture." 

What are you inspired by: "Experimental puppet theater, making quilts, and vintage cars."

Who's your favorite designer?: "[That's] an impossible question."

Who's your celebrity crush?: "Steve Carell and Stephen Colbert." 

Okay, lastly, what five spring staples should every girl own right this minute?

1. A white moto jacket.

2. Smoking slippers.

3. 3.1 Phillip Lim "I Heart Nueva York" graphic muscle t-shirt.

4. Leather shorts.

5. A backpack for bike riding.

Follow Aya on Twitter, and then pick up Cosmo mag to see her make fashion magic!

Photo: Courtesy Image

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Elisa Benson is the senior editor of social media for @Cosmopolitan?so, yes, she tweets about sex for a living. Elisa grew up in Ohio, attended Colgate University, and wrote love and relationship advice for Seventeen before graduating to Cosmo. She lives for girly things (weddings and eyelash extensions and Pretty Little Liars?) and frequently tweets about all of the above: @elisabenson.
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