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Fall Fashion 2008 - How Reality TV Turned Nina Garcia and Anne Slowey Into Rivals

Gawker found this 8/18/2008 on nymag.com

he summer after she turned 16, Ninotchka “Nina” Garcia found herself in the crossfire of a mafia shoot-out. She was eating a late dinner with her friends at a trendy restaurant in Barranquilla, Colombia, the hometown she shared with Gabriel García Márquez, Shakira, and a growing population of drug lords. The bullets started and stopped so quickly she didn t realize what was happening until she ...