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Fashion is one of her many faces Lester Cohen / Dolce Group For D’Amore, who entered the DJ world on a whim, turntables beat runways. Model, DJ, actress, restaurateur and maybe the face of L.A. Fashion Week, Caroline D'Amore knows how to keep herself busy.

IF Los Angeles fashion week has one face, it might belong to Caroline D'Amore. Over the course of her career, the 23-year-old has walked hundreds of runway shows in this town -- sometimes up to 14 a week -- and left an impression that's hard to ignore. At 5-foot-9, with a mane of shoulder-length brown hair, D'Amore is recognizable even to those who've never heard her name. Her distinctive gait -- catch it tomorrow night at the Heatherette show and at the Jenny Han show on Tuesday -- has helped. Part coltish gambol, part saucy hip swing, D'Amore's stride is often accompanied by a shoulder roll that makes her seem more voluptuous than her rail-thin frame would otherwise suggest. But you've seen her elsewhere too. Her sultry, heavy-lidded eyes and Mona Lisa half-smile have appeared in ads for Pellegrino water and Deere Colhoun handbags. Her skills at the turntables have laid down the vibe for local clubbers and party-goers. Her swimwear line recently debuted in Vegas, and she's landed a handful of small roles in Hollywood. No surprise, then, that in person, she carries herself with an effervescence and almost nervous energy that's a sharp contrast to the practiced ennui of the average runway model. Sitting upstairs at Mauro's Cafe at Fred Segal's Melrose outpost just hours before jetting to New York for an engagement party thrown by her future in-laws, D'Amore stabs her fork into a plate of rigatoni the size of a Cadillac hubcap and tries to explain how one of the four daughters raised by single dad and pizza parlor entrepreneur Joe D'Amore went from human coat hanger to Hollywood multihyphenate: model-actress-designer-DJ-restaurateur-writer. "I knew from the time I could walk that I wanted to work," she says, "that I wanted to be my own boss and do my own thing."

Ten Ways to Look and Feel Better By Labor Day By Matt Fitzgerald

1. Take ten years off your face 2. Feel ten years younger 3. Perfect your smile 4. Fix your skin 5. Fine-tune your shape If substantial weight loss has left you with a lot of loose skin, or if you've been pregnant, an abdominoplasty (i.e. tummy tuck) might be in order. "We're doing a lot more tummy tucks these days, especially in women who have recently given birth," says Lloyd Krieger, MD, of Rodeo Drive Plastic Surgery (www.RodeoDrivePlasticSurgery.com). "They want the tight, contoured body they had before pregnancy." Krieger notes that new techniques in reconstructing the navel allow tummy tucks to produce more natural-looking results than in the past. 6. Kick a bad habit 7. Treat your feet 8. Heal Faster 9. Enjoy a good pampering 10. Get a fashion makeover