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It was lights, camera, action at Mount Airy Casino Resort last week for a fashion shoot for the Boy Meets Girl fall clothing line. A small army of models, photographers, hair stylists and makeup artists descended upon the Mount Pocono casino, arriving from Manhattan, Los Angeles and as far away as London.

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Dominica DeNaples, second from left, of Clarks Summit’s Denim Diner, with the hair and makeup team lead by, from left, Tara Smith, Susie Lynn, Lauren Manzo Nicole Bonilla and Mia DeJesus.

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The clothing line—which is regularly featured on “Gossip Girl,” “Vampire Diaries,” “Sex and the City” and “America’s Next Top Model”—is carried by Dominica DeNaples in her Clarks Summit boutique, Denim Diner. When the line’s founder and creative director, Stacy Igel, mentioned to DeNaples that she was looking to shoot her next catalogue at a casino, DeNaples immediately offered up the family business for the locale.

Celebrity photographer Bobby Friedel shot in 10 different locations throughout the casino, including Gypsies Nightclub, Betty’s Diner and even from high atop the slot machines out on the casino floor.

London hair stylist Tara Smith—who won this year’s Celebrity Stylist of the Year in Britain—led a crew of stylists and makeup artists, including Susie Lynn from Los Angeles, Alison Lang of Manhattan and Lauren Manzo, who is also part of the cast of the “Real Housewives of NJ” and the daughter of the show’s matriarch, Caroline Manzo. The second season of the popular reality series will debut in June and will again include Manzo, as well as her boyfriend, Vito Scalia, who was with her at Mount Airy for two days during the shoot.

Angelique Velez, Katerina Savenkova, Catherine Scott and Erica Holsclaw were the featured models, and Nicole Bonilla and Mia DeJesus were also a part of the celebrity makeup team.

After a day of clothing changes, makeup touchups and redone hairdos, the entire crew celebrated at a dinner hosted by the DeNaples family in Le Sorelle Cucina and then at a fashion shoot wrap party in Gypsies where deejays Brian Langan and Connor McGuigan had everyone dancing into the wee morning hours.

“We had famous fashion designers, television make-up artists, celebrity hair stylists—you don’t get that every day in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, so it was fun for everybody involved,” saidDeNaples after the shoot.