You want to enjoy the cool weather before it passes, so you and your man are heading to the local outdoor ice skating rink this weekend to get in some quality fun time. The goal is to look cute for your date, but also wear something that can survive a couple not-so-graceful falls (unless you're a pro, of course).

I started you off with these Carolina Amato Opera-Length Leather Gloves ($285) because you can scrunch them down and hence look super chic.

Let's see what you all came up with!

Look # 1, created by EllaB is super cute; It was inspired by Blair Waldorf's skating outfit in Gossip Girl!

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Who says models are all beauty and no brains? Okay, I can't vouch for their brains, but I can prove that they have some mad skills. Wearing what looks like a suffocating bag around your face and having to walk down a long runway takes precision. Many models trip, even without such an obstacle, so I give the models who walked the Junya Watanabe Fall '08 show in Paris some respect. It looks like Paris and London, namely the shows of Watanabe, Maison Martin Margiela, Rick Owens, and Gareth Pugh, proved to be the most taxing for the models. Then again, signing on to work with such avant-garde designers, they probably expected a bit (okay, a lot) of craziness. Could you do it?

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• Natalie Portman dishes on the fab Boleyn costumes! — Off the Rack
• French connection: Our Paris fashion week hot list — Refinery29
• Steal this style: How-to dress like Rihanna — Couture in the City
• The fur flies at Jean-Paul Gaultier — Jezebel
• Gwen Stefani looking amazing on the cover of V magazine March/April 2008 — Catwalk Queen
• Five bags under $500 - Spring 2008 — Bag Snob
• Tyson Beckford spills on supermodel bad behavior! — Stylehive
• Olsen twin coffee table book coming soon — Styledash
• Norma Kamali to design Wal-Mart wear — Fashiontribes
• Victoria Beckham promotes DvB line in Toronto — FabSugar UK
• Flower Power — Coquette
• Agyness on the cover of TIME! — Fashionista

We all love a Look for Less, but when the Oscar red carpet has finished, the knockoff manufacturers kick into high gear. Which celebrities' dresses made the cut? Cachet, a New York-based eveningwear company, plans on replicating Heidi Klum's John Galliano, Anne Hathaway's Marchesa, Katherine Heigl's Escada, and Jessica Alba's eggplant-colored Marchesa, to be in stores next September.

Meanwhile, Faviana New York has its eyes set on reproducing Katherine Heigl's Escada for $328 (above), Miley Cyrus' $10,550 Valentino for $248, Amy Adam's Proenza Schouler for $258, and Jessica Alba's $6,000+ Marchesa for $300, to be available in the next 4-5 weeks. Would you ever buy one of these Oscar-inspired dresses?

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If I had to guess, I'd say Mischa Barton's favorite decade is the '70s. The actress, who was shopping for magazines, went back to her roots in a strapless floral dress, denim vest, and yellow sandals. I guess her recent fashion faux pas was a momentary lapse in fashion judgment. I'm glad the old Mischa is back . . . let's hope she stays this way!

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