She's got a reputation for being a 'man-eater': 'The former creative director of Tuleh, Brooks is a social fixture and man-eater.She gets photographed a lot at parties.Brooks refused to comment on l'affaire Alexandra to The Observer, but last year told W magazine (where her sister Kimberly is West Coast editor): 'It's taken me 10 years to be able to stand in the same room with those girls.' She was scandalized at Brown for dating Alexandre von Furstenberg: 'Young Amanda was ostracized by the collegiate upper-crust after a freshman fling with fellow undergrad Alexandre von Furstenberg he was dating future ex-wife Alexandra Miller at the time.A patrician blond beauty, she looks as if she's ready to pull out an ostrich-feather fan and pose for the ghost of John Singer Sargent.' Cutter, 26, grew up in the comfortable corridors of Palm Beach and Manhattan, graduated from Horace Mann, Deerfield Academy and Brown. She married Christopher Brooks in 2001: 'Consider their backgrounds.Other things we learned about Amanda Brooks from Googling her: She was the former creative director and muse at Tuleh-which went out of business last spring-and has made television appearances on a variety of morning talk shows in the United States. Her work has appeared in the NY Times Magazine, Vogue, and Men's Vogue. She was, most recently, the fashion director of William Morris Endeavor Entertainment. Brooks is a fashion consultant and writer.

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I Love Your Style by Amanda Brooks