In the lead-up to New York fashion week, designers go through hundreds of behind-the-scenes preparations to arrive at the completed show. This NYFW, we’ve sweet-talked a few of them into giving us an exclusive peek behind the curtain as they cast, score, style, and ready their presentations.

Katie Gallagher is a DIY kind of girl. At her Spring presentation last night at Milk Studios, everything—from the clothes to the invitations to the set design—was conceived and made in Gallagher’s third-floor walk-up in Chinatown, which she shares with partner in crime Nikolay Sav

This $60 necklace from SkinnyStyle.com could work now with every summer wardrobe piece and move into fall over a turtleneck or a poncho. It's a whole lotta bling for not so many bucks and perfection in my book! I love the size of this piece! I am so into big chunky gold jewelry right now. Purchase

This $60 necklace from SkinnyStyle.com could work now with every summer wardrobe piece and move into fall over a turtleneck or a poncho. It's a whole lotta bling for not so many bucks and perfection in my book! I love the size of this piece! I am so into big chunky gold jewelry right now. Purchase

“I started the season being inspired by a couple of Beardsley illustrations,” Doo-Ri Chung says of her Spring 2012 collection. “Using that as a starting point, I did some sketches that became the foundation for the prints, and throughout the development of Spring, the idea of illu

Photo: Ben Gabbe / Getty Images News broke this morning that the Gap and longtime creative director Patrick Robinson (left) are parting ways. Robinson, an alum of Paco Rabanne, Perry Ellis, and Anne Klein, was brought in in 2007 to revamp the retailer’s offerings and revive interest in the br

Photo: Courtesy of VPL “Vegan. Vegan. Leather. Vegan. Leather. Leather.” That was Victoria Bartlett last night after dinner, playing show-and-tell over a small display of her Spring 2012 VPL shoes set up in the corner at Gemma’s Wine Room. However, it was the animal product-free p

Everyone in Hollywood seems to be covered by a pair of denim leggings. Ashley Tisdale, Kate Moss, Kristin Cavallari and Kristin Stewart are all over the hot trend. Buy it here. But the truth is, unless you have a super-slim waist, a lot of what they're wearing won't make it past your hip. Luckliy,

Sasha Charnin Morrison is currently the Fashion Director at US Weekly Magazine, and boasts over twenty years of fashion magazine experience working for such notable publications as Allure, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, Mirabella, Seventeen, and Vanity Fair. Born in Manhattan, Sasha began her career

—Rebecca Voight Photos: Courtesy of Claudia Schiffer / Courtesy of Gaia Repossi Colette faithfully adheres to the mosh-pit school of event promotion: Position a bunch of people with interesting new ventures on the store’s upstairs fashion and art floor at bustling evening hours, have th