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The fashion biz can sometimes feel like one big game of keeping up with the Joneses Wintours. And, it's not just who you know or what you wear, what you say matters, too. In fact, the quickest way to reveal yourself to be a newbie or outsider is to flat-out not know what people are talking about. (Are they speaking in code? What is happening?) We don't want you to find yourself at a loss for words, or worse, asking for definitions. And, you can't very well carry around fashion flashcards with you everywhere. So, we've put together our next installment of Fashion Week Vocab, so you can talk the talk and walk the walk — while the street style photographers snap away behind you.
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00:00Are you sick of YOLO-ing and FOMO-ing?
00:02Well, I'm Connie.
00:03And I'm Annie from Refinery29,
00:05and we're here at Lincoln Center to teach you
00:07the new fashion catchphrases you need to know to not be passé.
00:10But I'm still gonna YOLO.
00:12Me too.
00:20I said 64 in Columbus.
00:23Four.
00:24In Columbus, like Christopher.
00:26I see your dot moving further and further away.
00:29You have a latitude problem.
00:32Latitude problem.
00:33The incensed conversation you have with your Uber driver
00:35about where the other person is.
00:37Neither is correct.
00:38No, please don't cancel.
00:39I'll go wherever you are.
00:40I'm sorry.
00:41Please don't cancel.
00:42Please don't cancel.
00:43Sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
00:46Whoa.
00:47Before you give me any shade, this got me Hanalee, Tommy Chan, LeBron, this clickbait work.
00:52Clickbait.
00:52A showpiece item that you wear for the express purpose of getting compliments
00:55or photographed at shows, and then take off as soon as you actually get to where you're going.
00:59Okay, can you just walk five steps behind me?
01:03Annie?
01:05Annie?
01:06I'm gonna make it to the show.
01:07There's just a huge backup.
01:10But I, you know, things will start moving.
01:14The red is turning into orange.
01:16So, yeah, I should be there.
01:18That was a nice piece of Traffiction we just did.
01:21Traffiction.
01:22The made-up traffic you concoct to blame your tardiness on.
01:26You know, come, you have like 17 minutes.
01:28Do you want to go get real food at, like, Prada Manger?
01:30I'm on that Fashion Freegan diet right now.
01:32Fashion Freegan.
01:33A diet that consists purely of the free energy bars, sugar drinks, macarons,
01:37and past hors d'oeuvres you forage for at shows and parties.
01:40I've had, like, eight of these already.
01:43Okay, well, I'm gonna go to Chipotle.
01:45Oh, no.
01:46My phone died.
01:48Also dead.
01:50Also dead.
01:53This one, too.
01:55I'm officially mo-fried.
01:57Mo-fried.
01:58When your phone and all your backup external batteries have died.
02:01I didn't see you at Boom Boom Room last night.
02:02Where were you?
02:03You know what?
02:03I just got tired and I was afraid the door,
02:05and I didn't want to call my Boom Boom Room-erang.
02:07Boom Boom Room-erang.
02:08The person you text inside a party to retrieve you when you're online.
02:11I just failed.
02:12She used my Boom Boom Room-erang.
02:13She's incredible.
02:14You text her and she's there, like, even before you get to a friend.
02:17Maybe one time me, you, your Boom Boom Room-erang,
02:19and my Boom Boom Room-erang can all get drinks.
02:21At the top of the standard!

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