NEW YORK (AP) – Katie Couric picks the outfits she wears each morning on NBC’s “Today” show – and that means she wears a lot of suits and dresses.

Couric was in the front row of Cynthia Steffe’s runway show for spring 2005, part of New York Fashion Week taking place in the tents at Bryant Park in midtown Manhattan and other venues throughout the city.

“Cynthia’s a friend and I’ve never been to one of her shows. It was time,” said Couric, wearing a tweed skirt-suit from Steffe’s fall collection.

The outfit had been delivered to the “Today” show co-host earlier in the day.

Couric said she had pieces from Steffe’s 2004 spring line, but didn’t want to show up in last season’s styles.

The “Today” show co-host came to New York Fashion Week to make colorectal cancer screening more fashionable. Couric, speaking on behalf of the Entertainment Industry Foundation’s National Colorectal Cancer Research Alliance, said Wednesday that while hemlines go up and down and animal prints go in and out, a woman’s body is here to stay.

“You want (your bodies) to look as good on the inside as out,” she said at a news conference in the tents at Bryant Park in midtown Manhattan, where many top designers are previewing their spring 2005 collections for retailers, media and fashion fans.

Couric was joined by model Iman, “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” star Nia Vardalos and designer Carmen Marc Valvo, himself a colon cancer survivor.

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Grab a hanky, friends. New York U frosh Mary-Kate Olsen, late of an undisclosed eating disorder clinic, has split from beau David Katzenberg. He’s a freshman at Boston U and the son of DreamWorks cofounder Jeffrey Katzenberg. Dating since December, the twosome agreed to go their separate ways last week. “It was a mutual parting of the ways and amicable,” says one of those ubiquitous well-placed sources. “Being at different schools played a part. It’s reasonable for her to start school fresh.” While other students grapple with organic chemistry and cafeteria grub, Olsen is starting fresh by attending the U.S. Open and the fashion collections this week.