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Happy Hours
The champagne will flow. New friends will be made. Inhibitions will be lost. Welcome to cocktail-party season. By Danielle Pergament PhotographeD by MARIO TESTINO
It's got to be the grimmest holiday trend since Furbies: the rise of "party motivators." These attractive people are hired by uptight hosts to entice guests into drinking, dancing, and mingling. Perhaps crushing bores need such ersatz fizz, but Catherine Malandrino surely doesn't. "Parties should happen naturally," says the designer, who's been known to throw soirees that are as unrestrained as some of her plunging, filmy ...