Two years on, and Douglas Rodriguez’s Pipa still holds a magnetic lure for the absolutely fabulous crowd.

During Fashion Week, particularly, this taparia in ABC Carpet & Home is bursting at the seams with chicer-than-thou clothes horses and hounds – and the men who love them.

Smack-bang in the middle of model agency central, the kookily ornate Andalusian lounge, with its extravagant chandeliers and distressed mirrors, draws the likes of Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, Kate Spade, Ines Rivero, Audrey Quock, John Cusack and Michelle Behennah.

What to drink? Sangria, sweetie: all that Vitamin C is good for the complexion, don’t ya know. Oh, and when you’ve drunk your fill you can go … shopping!

Pipa, ABC Carpet & Home, 38 E. 19th St. (between Broadway & Park Ave. South), (212) 677 2233.