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THE LATEST FAD IS FASHION ON LOAN

CHANEL co-sponsored the Cinema Society screening for Keira Knightley's "The Duchess." And how designers make a living, God knows. Everybody but Andrew Saffir, the guy who runs the Cinema Society, was in borrowed threads. Coco Rocha, Canada's...



WE HEAR . . .

THAT Houston socialite Lynn Wyatt, who has been staying with Elton John and David Furnish in the south of France, arrived in New York this week for Carolina Herrera's fashion show, but then headed to Texas to protect her home from the impending...


DON'T MOCK ME!

ASHLEY Dupre can't take a joke. The hottie hooker who brought down Eliot Spitzer was in a sheer wifebeater and tight jeans as she checked her cellphone in front of Abercrombie & Fitch on Fifth Avenue the other day. A pedicab driver at the...


B'DAY BOY

PRUDENTIAL Douglas Elliman chairman Howard Lorber celebrated his 60th birthday Wednesday evening at the Grand Havana Room with 100 friends, including Carl Icahn, Leon Black, Donald Trump (and his sons, Eric and Donald Jr.), Leslie Alexander (owner...


OLSENS DOUBLE TROUBLE FOR NABE

MARY-Kate and Ashley Olsen always complain they want more privacy - so why are they drawing so much attention to themselves on their quiet West Village block? Residents on West 13th Street are annoyed by the tiny twins' "military presence." One...


CLUB SWITCH

HEATHER Graham is single again, but she's not playing the field. Graham, who recently split from club owner Charles Ferri, was dancing and flirting with Dylan McDermott at the Rose Bar on Tuesday night for the Gramercy Park Hotel lounge's two-year...


VICTORY LAPS

THERE are stars. There are superstars. And there is Michael Phelps . The golden boy of the Olympics, who will host "Saturday Night Live" this weekend, caused near-hysteria at Blue Ribbon Sushi in Midtown on Wednesday night. "It was funny to see...


ROYAL CRITICS

BELIEVE it or not, the Royal Family does have a sense of humor. Amanda Foreman, who penned "The Duchess," about Lady Georgiana Spencer - the great-great-great-great aunt of Princess Diana - tells us the movie adaptation is a hit with the Buckingham...


FOOD FIGHT!

THE insults fly when you ask Manhattan's top restaurateurs about each other's eateries, as Page Six Magazine in this Sunday's Post found out. "[Ronald] Perelman goes to Michael's? I thought he had better taste than that," Four Seasons Grill Room...


CHE IT ISN'T SO

STEVEN Soderbergh is hoping Liberace will be more popular with movie fans than Che Guevara. "Che" - the director's loving tribute to the communist revolutionary - is going almost straight to video. Soderbergh refused to cut the 4-hour-and-22- minute...


SIGHTINGS

BAR Refaeli having cocktails with girl friends at the Eldridge on the Lower East Side . . . MICHAEL Bublé singing "Happy Birthday" to Blake Lively during her 21st- birthday bash at the Palace Hotel, . . . AL Pacino and Robert De Niro taping an...


WILL THE REAL NE-YO STAND UP

SOME nightlife promoters are so desperate to fill their parties, they'll even put a fake performer onstage. On a recent Sunday night, the promoter group Party at NYC rented out the club Mansion, on West 28th Street, and sold tickets to a Ne-Yo...


DINNER DATE

JAMIE Kennedy prefers women to food. The other night, Kennedy celebrated his movie "Heckler" at the Toronto Film Festival with a dinner at the Supper Club but left his fellow diners at the table to get busy with a lady. "The annoyed cast waited for...


DENISE RICH'S FASHION TIPS

DENISE Rich enthralled 100 Fashion Week-lings at Brasserie Cognac with a report on her summer vacation: "London is the best place to buy Jimmy Choo, St.-Tropez has the coolest Pucci. I get my Lacroix in Cannes, Louis Vuitton in Paris and Cavalli in...