NEW YORK, Sep 15, 2003/ FW/ --- She did not live an ordinary life. With actors Jack Nicholson and Sandra Knight as parents, she grew up in Hollywood.

She had two homes growing up, living with her mother at Hancock Park and her father's home at Mulholland Drive.

Jennifer Nicholson's high school chums looks like a list from Oscar Night - from Tatum O'Neal to Victoria Sellers.

Unlike other Hollywood kids who followed the footsteps of their parents, Jennifer Nicholson took a different path. She went into to fashion designing.

And on her birthday, last Saturday, Sept 13, she debuted in Bryant Park, showing her collection for the first time on the New York runway.

She described her collection as 'racy,' and she was right on the numbers.

Naomi Campbell opened the show with pink layered mini skirt with spaghetti straps, adorned with a big bow.

The dress looked sweet, but the boots gave it hard edge. And that is exactly Jennifer Nicholson's style - sweet, almost romantic clothes, with a hard edge, the hardness coming from the make up and the model's (or the wearer) countenance.

Ingrid Casares and Rufus Wainwright sat on the front row. Casares told 'The Daily' later that she liked 'the black whole-piece jumpsuit.'

I cannot agree more. It was truly a beautiful piece. In fact, the whole collection was a winner.

With the exception of a very few pieces whom I tried to imagine where it can be worn other than the bedroom, the whole collection can go from the runway straight to the sales floor.

In short, they are very wearable. But before anyone use the word, 'commercial,' hold that thought and then forget it.

Lots of creative effort was put in the collection. It's different and not run of the mill.

The clothes can go from the race tracks to shopping at Rodeo Drive, dinner at The Ivy and a night out at the Viper Room at Sunset Boulevard.

Jennifer Nicholson might be a freshman at Bryant Park, but she surely knows clothes.

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