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You didn't have to pry your way into the Boom Boom Room to go celebrity-hunting in the Meatpacking District last Thursday night. For a $30 ticket (which would get you just one drink at the Boom, by the way) you could have supported a fantastic cause, and gotten your fill of A-listers. Aerospace High Performance Center, the chic athletic club on 13th street, hosted its third annual Championships Fight for Fitness competition -- proceeds go to the East Harlem School's fitness program -- with an impressive panel of celebrity judges including Hugh Jackman, Adriana Lima, Narciso Rodriguez, Q-tip and Harvey Keitel.

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Victoria Secret has announced it will add five fresh faces to its line-up of genetically superior mannequins this season. The models in question: Emanuela de Paula, Lindsay Ellingson, Candice Swanepoel, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, and Chanel Iman. Iman is no doubt the most recognizable of the group, but having been added to the Victoria Secret roster gives the aforementioned models as good a chance as any to becoming household names as well (especially considering, according to Fashionologie, such contracts typically are signed for three years). Victoria's Secret is gearing up to tape its much-anticipated annual runway show November 19.

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It was like a class trip all over again, except instead of lusting over the teacher's monogrammed Louis Vuitton pochette, we were carrying them. Last night Louis Vuitton hosted an out-of-this-world soiree at the American Museum of Natural History's Rose Center for Earth and Space to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the seminal lunar landing of 1969. Daniel Lalonde, president and CEO of Louis Vuitton North America, presided over the event with the help of NASA superstars Buzz Aldrin, Jim Lovell, and Sally Ride.

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● Kate Winslet’s harshest critic is her own daughter Mia; despite winning an Oscar, Mia scolded Winslet for her choice of the gray Yves Saint Laurent dress. [OMGYahoo] ● After weeks of media concern over Lindsay Lohan’s drastic weight loss, her father has issued a statement saying that he will talk to her about it. That should settle things. [Radar] ● Lady Gaga went shopping yesterday in Paris in nothing but a nude leotard, pearls, and a trench. When is she going to learn that the nothing-but-a-leotard-look is not happening? [CelebrityGossip]

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Hey, this week isn't half bad! First, yesterday, NYSE chatterboxes smiled all day from the trading floor, reporting ... well, not totally bad news per se, while traders wandered around almost bored because the Dow wasn't in a hellish free-fall. Today, we hear that frilly underthings company Victoria's Secret is expanding. Yes, a silver lining my friends! According to reports, VS bought Lounge at Broadway and Houston to build a 24,000 square-foot flagship store, set to open in 2009.

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