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"  The first musician I ever styled was Mariah Carey. Talk about starting at the top. It was just a quick portrait, but that one shoot led to a fun, adventurous, decade-long relationship with the pop butterfly\u2014and added a whole new chapter to my fashion career. I went on to work on many album covers, some of which, I&amp;#039;m proud to say, hit number one: Justin Timberlake&amp;#039;s FutureSex/LoveSounds, Jennifer Lopez&amp;#039;s J.Lo, and Celine Dion&amp;#039;s Let&amp;#039;s Talk About Love, to name a few. Early on in my work with Mariah, I learned a lesson that still informs my collaborations with pop stars: This particular breed of musician marches to a different beat. Their images and personas are as essential as their music, and that distilled essence of who they are has to be reflected in every item of clothing they choose to wear\u2014or not to wear. Unlike models or even actresses, pop stars need to command attention\u00AD\u2014to have that aura, that measurable presence\u2014onstage and off. There&amp;#039;s no such thing as too much, especially when it comes to being sexy. And that&amp;#039;s Sexy with a capital S. Of course, Madonna&amp;#039;s idea of sexy is stratospherically different from that of, say, Janet Jackson, or Lady Gaga, or even Diana Ross or Liza Minnelli. But all of these megastars share at least one steadfast rule: Never abandon the sizzle. Music has increasingly become the one arena in which envelope-pushing sexiness has become the rule, not the exception. Imagine walking the MTV Video Music Awards red carpet in just a bra. Absolutely doable. Now imagine the same thing at the Golden Globes. Not so much. One pop star who&amp;#039;s never afraid to turn up the heat on the red carpet or the dance floor is Nicole Scherzinger, lead singer of the Pussycat Dolls. Her girl-power troupe took old-school burlesque to the Top 40. And even when she was cha-cha-ing into our living rooms each week as the winner of Dancing With the Stars or holding forth as a judge on the U.S. version of The X Factor, her slinky, body-con look has always been her calling card. Now a solo artist with an upcoming album, Killer Love, Scherzinger agreed to share some of the secrets of her sultry style, helping me demonstrate that sexy isn&amp;#039;t always scanty and va-va-voom needn&amp;#039;t be vulgar. Check out how these looks rate on the sizzle-ometer. Which ones do you think will fly off the charts this season?  Click here to see the looks! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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