Is there anyone more in love with color, prints and stripes than Sir Paul Smith? The fashion designer and icon is famous for fusing British tailoring with just the right touch of the unexpected. He designs several collections each season including his main line...

The fashion designer and television personality Michael Kors is on a mission to help prevent world hunger. He recently partnered with the United Nations World Food Programme to help raise funds to feed children in hunger-stricken countries. Kors specially designed two styles of his...

The aesthetic of San Francisco-based decorator Grant K. Gibson is all about mixing magazine-ready chic-ness with a livable quality. His is not the overly polished, you-can't-touch-this-it's-too-precious look. What he creates are rooms that are layered not only with different design eras, colors and textures...

When it comes to fashion illustrations and celebrity portraits, is there anyone more famous or more sought after than David Downton right now?

Downton's work has appeared on the pages of Vogue, Harper's Bazaar and Vanity Fair. He's done sittings with the likes Cate...

The designer Donna Karan and her Urban Zen Foundation have teamed up with eBay and the CFDA to raise money for the Haitian Artisan Project. The designer has donated three-inch size papier mache hearts crafted by Haitian artist Magali Dresse. These hearts...

Suzanne Sharp, the founder and creative director of The Rug Company recently launched three new geometric rug designs. She's named them Cora, Romy and Calypso (pictured below) and they possess that unmistakable subtlety -- yet statement-quality -- that pieces from The Rug Company are...

Craig Van Den Brulle is a well-known name in the design circles. He has a store in New York which sells pedigreed antique and vintage furniture and home accents. He also has his eponymous line of furniture -- ultra modern pieces with gleaming surfaces...

The interior designer Alexa Hampton takes time off from her busy schedule (decorating projects, running her father's design firm Mark Hampton LLC, creating product lines for the likes of Kravet, Circa Lighting and Hickory Chair and raising a family) to talk about design legacies...

To be in the company of Jeremiah Goodman is to be in the palm of a living legend. You become enthralled by the rich and glorious life he's lived, the fascinating figures he's met and worked with, and for a brief moment, your life...

Alexandra Von Furstenberg has made waves in the design scene with her modern take on acrylic home decor and furniture. Her designs, often injected with a sliver of fluorescent color, are a fresh and contemporary take on a material that we've come to associate...

Thad Hayes is the decorator of choice of many of Manhattans boldface names, including the Lauders. His is an aesthetic that deftly balances the traditional with the contemporary, the decorated with the edited, and is all executed with a clean and tailored hand. Below, the interior designer, whose works are...

Highly acclaimed fashion photographer Diego Uchitel, who recently released his book Polaroids (read a review here), talks about his Instagram addiction, living the dream and his porn preference.

When I wake up... unless I am traveling or shooting, I take my kids...

Miles Redd is a decorator with a knack for the glamorous and the unexpected, and he's not one to shy away from applying lacquer on a whole room or mixing periods, styles and patterns. He does all this in a way that conveys a...

When I wake up... I...

More and more men are now paying attention to what they wear. This is, in part, due to the many blogs devoted to street style. But credit is due to the designers who keep giving us clothes we're more than willing to part with...

Nathan Turner is busy with book signings for his lush tome Nathan Turner's American Style: Classic Design & Effortless Entertaining. Turner is a top decorator, and he is currently the style expert at Pottery Barn. He is also one of the stars of the...

It's hard to believe that the decorator and furniture designer Barbara Barry is only just launching her first book. She is, of course, one of the doyennes of interior design and her aesthetic of pared down, uptown and quiet glamour has inspired many, including...

Is there anything Milan Vukmirovic can't do? Here's a checklist of his past and present roles: fashion designer, creative director, magazine editor, curator, consultant, boutique owner and arguably the king of street style blogs. With his incredible and oft copied personal style, Milan cuts...

Before she launched her eponymous label, the fashion designer Yoana Baraschi honed her design chops at several houses including Cacharel, Mugler, Faconable and Betsey Johnson. It was while working at Betsey Johnson that she came to the decision to launch her own label having...