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Jeffrey Costello & Robert Tagliapietra

fashion designers

"We love Jean Muir and Geoffrey Beene, people who respected the arts. For us it harkens back to our ...

Galia Loupan

dilettante, translator

"19th Century French poetry and ideas resonate with me. It's the idea that you have to lose yourself ...

Jesse Kamm

clothing and textile designer

"I get confused when I look at what I’m supposed to be doing. If I’m on my truest path, I’m ju ...

Emily Leonard

artist

"I'm inspired by watching a child draw, watching a woman peel vegetables, seeing a friend become vul ...

Annakim Violette

artist, musician, blogger

"Clothing shouldn’t be about trying to fit in or out of the world. It should be the opposite of an ...

Beatrice Valenzuela

hairdresser, stylist and shoe designer

"I don’t keep clothes for very long...The experience of life is about seeing how you can always fi ...

Louise Ingalls Sturges

artist

"Fashion is the most common art form. Every single person wakes up and makes a decision about how th ...

Jenne Lombardo

founder of The Terminal Presents

"I am visually drawn to and inspired by the grit and underbelly of cultures and art. I like things t ...

Lisidolly Estrella

sales associate, stylist and designer

"Ever since I was a little girl my mom had me in dresses. To this day I still wear dresses-- I don't ...

Lika Volkova

designer, artist

"What is quintessential about style all together is how you feel about your body, not how you feel a ...

Darian Darling

makeup artist and blogger

“I never wear flats. I’d rather cut my foot off than be seen in public with a flip flop on.” D ...

Kenyon Phillips

singer

“When I was twenty-two I began to lose my hair. I felt a lot of shame and self-loathing from being ...

Bliss Lau

jewelry and accessories designer

“I’m so connected to making things; it’s special to be able to make jewelry. It feels so good ...

Aureta Thomollari

blogger and entrepreneur

"I like things to be over the top. Average doesn't interest nor inspire me." Aureta Thomollari ...

Kristen Lee

co-owner and director of TenOverSix and shoe designer

"[In LA] there’s less pressure, which is very good for the creative process." Kristen Lee ...

Erin Magee

production manager of Supreme and designer of MadeMe

“When designing, I take traditional typical men’s styles and alter the fit, change a few details ...

Emma Brady

lawyer

"I can't stand the whole 'it bag' culture." Emma Brady ...

Lindsey Caldwell

DJ and singer

"You learn from people who are skilled already. It’s like family recipes. The styles of music, the ...

Cator Sparks

writer and blogger

"[London] is such an amazing place. Period. I'll never forget riding the subway one day when I saw a ...

Jelone

musician

"You’ve got to not only be able to sing a song, you’ve also got to create an art and let your au ...

Diane Naegel

jewelry designer

"I wanted to be anything but what I was. I think that over the years being exposed to blogs, to diff ...

Jeffrey Ying

writer

"I’ve always been attracted to the notion of uniforms as fashion, or fashion as uniform, because i ...

Kelly Mills

fashion publicist

"I would come out of my body as a child, and I would go into my body... I think it comes from my her ...

Brooklyn Babydoll

civil servant, burlesque, go-go dancer, and pin up girl

"Who cares about what celebrities are wearing? Someone told them to wear it. [I like] ...

Kate Ross

accessories designer

"I’m learning to live my life in love. It helps me remain in a state of peace. If I can love peopl ...

Craig Robinson

menswear designer

"I'm often inspired by people with stories of strife, lawmen and criminals, political figures, activ ...

Kelle Calco

musician, DJ, party host

"I've never traveled, only relocated. Portland made me a hippie. New Orleans, a pirate. Pittsburgh p ...

Drue Kataoka

artist,

“I feel like I’ve always had one foot in the East and one foot in the West. It’s a part of me, ...

Lesa Amoore

stylist and photographer

"Fashion is, by design, mood-depending, and energy-altering. That is my favorite thing about it." Le ...

Lindsay Jones

designer and stylist

"I enjoy creating beautiful worlds, objects and clothing and living inside of them. Making music. O ...