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For one night last month, the Long Island village was the epicenter of fly. The Mary J. Blige�Jay-Z concert at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum brought out big boots, fat chains, and some amazing hoodie-and-hat combos. �Look Book� joined the party.

"I get very nervous in wide-open spaces."

Gregory Crewdson’s singular approach.

"I always have looked up to people with interesting hairstyles."

"I’ve had my dreads for about twenty years; it’s part of being a Rasta."

"I have to go many places, I live many places."

"You can say I’m dressed like a French farmer."

Is luxury really impervious to a nervous market? Gucci’s mammoth new midtown store assumes the appetite for designer goods is undiminished.

French Vogue editor Carine Roitfeld is full of respect for the powerful fashion editors on the other side of the Atlantic. �They are very, how you say, slick,� she says. But all that money and success are so . . . American.

"It’s a matter of layering both color and texture. When you’ve been a cat for a long time, you know texture."