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" &amp;quot;I cover everything from politics to hurricanes to fashion week,&amp;quot; quips Alina Cho. As a CNN national correspondent, she has reported from inside North Korea and covered Hurricane Katrina, among other journalistic coups. And with her series Fashion: Backstage Pass, she&amp;#039;s now in the style trenches. For her latest special, airing Saturday, Cho attended Paris Fashion Week and interviewed Karl Lagerfeld, Alber Elbaz, Marc Jacobs, Christian Louboutin and Haider Ackermann. For the Lanvin segment above, Julianne Moore and our own Editor in Chief Glenda Bailey weighed in on their love of the label. Cho avows she doesn&amp;#039;t find reporting fashion that different from her previous work, saying, &amp;quot;Every story requires reporting. You use the same the skills whether you&amp;#039;re covering the presidential election or the Paris collections.&amp;quot; She adds, &amp;quot;Is it better eye candy, in some ways? Yes. It&amp;#039;s great to look at clothes.&amp;quot; While in the City of Light, she sunk that reporting talent into Fashion Month&amp;#039;s most talked-about story: the ongoing rumors about John Galliano&amp;#039;s replacement at Dior. &amp;quot;It is obviously the biggest question mark after Fashion Week,&amp;quot; says Cho, who interviewed Dior president and CEO Sidney Toledano and Galliano&amp;#039;s interim creative director Bill Gaytten for the piece. Cho&amp;#039;s favorite Paris moment? The merry-go-round at the Louis Vuitton show. &amp;quot;When the white curtain went up and it revealed the carousel\u2026there was a collective gasp in the room.&amp;quot; She was also present for Chanel&amp;#039;s under-the-sea spectacle, complete with Florence + the Machine performance. Growing up, Cho \u2014 who favors sequins and vertiginous heels \u2014 was always a fashion maven, and today she makes sure to keep up on the latest headlines: &amp;quot;WWD, the New York Times and the New York Post battle it out for first read in the morning.&amp;quot; And as a fan of everyone from Carven to Ala\u00EFa to Miu Miu, she enjoys the opportunity to turn the typical newscaster uniform on its head. (For example, the day we spoke, she was wearing a printed Marni blouse paired with an oversized statement necklace from the designer.) &amp;quot;[The show] gives me a little bit of a license to push it a little bit with my clothing choices on air,&amp;quot; Cho explains. Cho is planning another special in February, on New York Fashion Week. And after that? &amp;quot;All I can say is I&amp;#039;m headed to Milan,&amp;quot; she hints. She&amp;#039;s still got plenty of subjects in her sights. &amp;quot;The person I most want to interview is John Galliano,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;And Kim Jong-il.&amp;quot; Fashion: Backstage Pass airs Saturday, October 15 to 2:30-3:00pm ET. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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