"I must admit, I am kind of tacky. I am kind of like a Vegas show girl," Zandile Blay said during our interview, but it couldn't be farther from the truth. Her penetrating beauty and intelligence can pull off anything from a burgundy mohair bolero to a college sweatshirt. To...

Stef Van Der Laan, IMG model, says that when she puts on something happy, she is happy. It's hard not to smile when you see her tutu from the H&M children's department juxtaposed against an army parka and white "cloggy" wedge sandals, or in her knee socks with a thrifted...

Hannah has a quiet strength that is conveyed in her love of all black ("black demands respect") and the powerful shapes that define her as a forceful visionary. The blazers, often with herculean shoulders, the ring (a collaboration with Hannah Martin), that could pass as a weapon, the bionic Raphael...

As tough as it is, adversity can be such a gift. Olek grew up in socialist Poland and she describes it as cold, gray, industrial and full of coal mines. If you were sent anything valuable it was taken away, she recalls, and so her uncle sent her family colorful...

As a fashion stylist for more than two decades, there were a few stops along the way where any feeling that I was working melted away, even in the midst of pulling clothes and accessories. At the tippy top of that list is the What Goes Around Comes Around warehouse...

Having grown up in a gang in the 'hood of Columbus, Ohio wearing do-rags and XXXL tees to becoming an NYC fashion designer in a shawl collar vintage cardigan and dove gray Toms, Nary says that he really hasn't changed that much as a person -- he is as real...

"Everyone who feels out of the box moves to New York City," Daniel Silver says. But, "there isn't a love for fantasy in fashion there. Whereas, in Paris, there is a history of celebrating the artistic and creative." And so the tiresome quest to fit in among the innovative endures,...

One of Andrea's "claims to fame" is that she styled the infamous Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love cover of Sassy magazine. It is so indicative of Andrea's committment to heartfelt connections that she chose the same sweater that Kurt wore for that shoot [see Andrea wearing it below],...

Jeffrey Williams, winner of Bravo's "The Fashion Show," confided in me that he has become numb to people staring at him when he walks down the street. He is so captivating and free in his self-expression, that you can't help but feel magnetized towards him. Jeffrey turns everything and anything...

Whether bald or wearing flannels with a bandana everyday, "less is more" is an art - Joan and Melissa Rivers, are you listening?

Mey was discovered by her modeling agency at the age of nineteen while marching in the Gay Pride Parade with a shaved head....

When I shot Lindsay Jones for SLU, despite being taken by her Guinevere locks and Mormon-meets-bohemian aesthetic, I couldn't help but be overwhelmed with curiosity over who designed the 5,000-square-foot Neverland-like loft that Lindsay lives in. It was as much an expression of her imagination as her wardrobe. The...

When I do these interviews, I have found myself just as interested, if not more so, with what informs our muses as I am with what they're wearing. For example, it's not a coincidence that Nina loves minimal color, clean silhouettes and photography with spare landscapes, and, as a result,...

Perched like a parrot in the Pasadena Hills house that she barely leaves, barefoot in Madeleine and birthday cake dresses, Alia is establishing her vision of turning everything white or beige into technicolor. She cites the little boy in Frank L. Baum's Wizard of Oz series as inspiration for the...

"I'm definitely cooler in my head than I think I am in real life," says Jake, but no - he is as cool as it gets. A jock in high school with a passion for fashion magazines, Jake hot-glued bandannas into the bells of his jeans and tied his grandfather's...

Could somebody please take a stand towards the return of connoisseurship to fashion by bringing back Lauren's "Behind the Velvet Ropes" and immediately rid us of the intolerable inanity of Joan Rivers and Guiliana Rancic on "The Fashion Police"?

It's time to raise the bar and bring back soul...

As I was revisiting Mitch's interview, I found myself melting over the story of his days in college, working to win over "the most beautiful girl in the world." With the money that he made selling African beads on campus, Mitch rented a gold lame jumpsuit and red leather three...

In true Gemini form, Christopher is as serious as he is lighthearted, always needing to stand out from the crowd visually, but tastefully. On the one hand, he is calm, collected and classic, in his gold, silk Brooks Brothers suspenders, high-waisted khakis and spectacles. On the other hand, he is...

Natalie says that style is her Prozac and that nuances speak volumes on an individual's behalf. The distinction of her giant gold cuff with spikes and gems, a necklace with molded silver lips and hanging agate stones or a YSL three-piece smoking suit also gives me the best kind of...

StyleLikeU presents a new fashion editorial celebrating the One Dress Project. ODP is a charity that benefits international humanitarian organizations working to prevent the sale of young women across the globe into marriage slavery, a fate that befalls an estimated 60 million girls. SLU worked closely...

Elfee admires famed set designer Tony Duquette for his "wild imagination and ability to see beauty in what others would consider rubbish." Rarely paying more than twenty dollars for any piece in her wardrobe, Elfee looks like she's just stepped off the set of one of her favorite shows,...