Working with the health of the planet in mind, Manimal designer Kristen Lombardi doesn't waste leather (scraps from one item become the basis for another). She also creates vegan counterparts for many of her leather pieces and she doesn't mass produce—in fact, each Manimal piece is made by a team of no more than three craftspeople. read more

For her fall 2010 collection, which debuted at Fashion Week, designer Rebecca Taylor says she looked to both the laid back femininity of “seventies Parisian attitude” (think Brigitte Bardot) and a tougher, leaner “New York City urban girl." read more