Lauren Santo Domingo, a Vogue contributing editor and co-founder of fashion online retailer Moda Operandi, has sworn off the mod era and its boxy shapes.

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It was founded by Aslaug Magnusdottir, the former head of merchandising for Gilt Noir, and Lauren Santo Domingo, the Vogue editor and New York socialite extreme.

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Meanwhile, Lauren Santo Domingo, a Greenwich, Connecticut, native whose wedding to the son of a Colombian billionaire received 10 pages of coverage in Vogue, has been named by the New York press as a contender for late society doyenne Brooke Astor's empty seat.

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