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Audrina Patridge cracks us up.  We hate to say it, but that girl is not the sharpest tool in the shed.  Check out her fascinating article in the LA Times about life on The Hills.  New season coming soon!

Say what you want about NY women, but those ladies can dress.  At the top, we have Sarah Jessica Parker, business women Evelyn Lauder, Diana Taylor, and Ivanka Trump, and philanthropist Julia Koch.  We love what VF has to save about why they picked the list they did.

“It was not intentional, but it’s not surprising,” says Vanity Fair special correspondent Amy Fine Collins. ”New York women may be over-represented on the list just because New York women rule. We have access and we have the contacts that can’t be duplicated anywhere else in the world. And we’ve got visibility – a great stage on which to perform.”

But not just any well-dressed New Yorker would do. Brains are as important as beauty.

“Intelligence seeps through style,” Fine Collins explains. “It’s hard to be someone who has an original and authentic and individual style unless there’s some kind of overriding intelligence. But if you’re a copycat or if you’re fearful or weak or timid, you’re just not going to cut it.

“You’re the person that people imitate, not a person who follows,” she adds. “So you’ve got to have some kind of independent mind. There’s a cerebral factor there.”

For more, read here.

We won’t lie.  At elaney, we love to admire the name brands.  Oh we like a deal.  We looooove a deal.  But we certainly like to admire from afar a little bling bling designer dud.  And we like Louis.  But we don’t know which Louis we like the best.  The traditional (like Naomi Campbell), or the Damier (like Hilary Duff).  What do you think?  

“If you really love someone, you shouldn’t have to work at it,” – Vanessa Hudgens, 19.

Wow Vanessa!  We always thought the opposite.  Thanks for clearing that up.

Check out Chattanooga, TN bag designer Merrell McGinness cool line of bags.  She’s not Making anyMore (for now) so check out these neat purses that will be one day be vintage, once Merrell is the next Donatella Versace (sans checkered past).  At elaney, we like the Margaret, but Callie’s cute too.

Elaney is on summer vacation this week.  Check back next week for updates!