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Who's your favorite New Yorker, living or dead, real or fictional? Fictional: Eloise: lived at the Plaza, wore great patent-leather mary janes, and was always in search of an adventure; timeless. Real: My partner, Andrew; he’s the best backseat driver I know.

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Name: Catherine Malandrino
Age: No comment
Job: Designer. Her fall collection debuts today at the Chelsea Art Museum.
Neighborhood: Riverside Drive

Who's your favorite New Yorker, living or dead, real or fictional?
Andy Warhol.

What's the best meal you've eaten in New York?
Steak from Peter Luger.

In one sentence, what do you actually do all day in your job?
Designing, drafting, fitting, cutting, draping, looking.

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Name: Nanette Lepore
Age: N/A
Job: Fashion designer. Her fall 2007 collection debuted today.
Neighborhood: West Village

Who's your favorite New Yorker, living or dead, real or fictional?
Violet Savage, my daughter.

What's the best meal you've eaten in New York?
Steak and fries at Rio Mar, which sadly no longer exists.

In one sentence, what do you actually do all day in your job?
Try to make a great outfit.

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Name: Tracy Reese
Age: A lady never tells!
Job: Designer. Her Fall 2007 collection premiers today.
Neighborhood: Murray Hill

Who's your favorite New Yorker, living or dead, real or fictional?
Holly Golightly.

What's the best meal you've eaten in New York?
Anything I've ever ordered at Indochine.

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Name: Kimora Lee Simmons
Age: A woman who will tell her age will tell anything!
Job: Mother, businesswoman, fashion designer, entrepreneur, philanthropist. Her fall 2007 Baby Phat collection debuts tonight at 8 p.m. at the Roseland Ballroom.
Neighborhood: Upper East Side

Who's your favorite New Yorker, living or dead, real or fictional?
Jackie Kennedy Onassis

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Name: Jack McCollough
Age: 28
Job: Designer
Neighborhood: West Village

Who's your favorite New Yorker, living or dead, real or fictional?
L: My dog Jojo.
J: Woody Allen.

What's the best meal you've eaten in New York?
L: Nothing beats my mother’s cooking when she’s in New York visiting. Nothing like a home-cooked meal. Now, if only I knew how to cook!
J: Per Se.

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Who's your favorite New Yorker, living or dead, real or fictional?
The late Nan Kempner.

What's the best meal you've eaten in New York?
Ooh, by far it’s the crispy garlic red snapper at the restaurant NAM (in Tribeca).

In one sentence, what do you actually do all day in your job?
“Propose Solutions…”

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Who's your favorite New Yorker, living or dead, real or fictional?
Patrick Bateman from the book American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis. "Don't just look at her ass, EAT IT."

What's the best meal you've eaten in New York?
Macaroni and cheese with truffles.

In one sentence, what do you actually do all day in your job?
I make clothes look good.

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Who's your favorite New Yorker, living or dead, real or fictional?
Laura Mars.

What's the best meal you've eaten in New York?
Eleven Madison Park always does the trick. But lately I always find myself eating the fried artichokes followed by the polpettine alla siciliana at Gusto, which is in my neighborhood.

In one sentence, what do you actually do all day in your job?
Try really hard to make pretty things.

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Who's your favorite New Yorker, living or dead, real or fictional?
The Statue of Liberty.

What's the best meal you've eaten in New York?
Pure Food & Wine’s Raw Tiramisu — it’s the most amazing I’ve ever had.

In one sentence, what do you actually do all day in your job?
Create fantasy.