Top Fit

Perfect Mix of Materials, Patterns and Folding Forms

Natalie II

How does Natalie Portman manage to always look stunning?

Edris

Rebecca

Sarah

Keira

If you are fed up wearing your fake glasses on your nose, your neck line could be a better place.

Jennifer

Jennifer (24) is quite busy as a fashion assistant, so she didn't have more time than to tall me, that her blue dress is from Wayne. And that Mesi Jilly designed her huge crafty ring. What a peace of art!

Vika

I saw the Russian designer Vika Gazinskaya (left) everyday at fashionweek and she always catched my eye as one of the most special dressed guests. I wonder, whether she knows exactly what to pick out of her closet, or whether she changes several times in the mornings. Scott Schuman (in shorts on her left) just praised her haircut on the Sartorialist. This picture is for everyone, who wants to see it from behind...

taking pictures

She is smiling for a picture, but not for this one

ROMA

Roma (26) is wearing a Custo rag knotted like a dress around her neck. Her name is a mergence of Rosa-Maria, so she is not Italian, but half Polish half Kenyan, born in Germany. Speaking three languages fluently is possibly useful for her job at the department of public information at the UN. At work Roma has to dress UN code like, after work she wears inherited clothes from her mother, or fashion from INA. But actually Roma is more into eating and drinking than into design. Favorites: Kuma Inn and Le Pere Pinard in the Lower East Side.

EVA

Two years passed since Eva (26) is living in New York, although she just wanted to stay for three months. Bavarian born stylist, fashion journalist and photographer buys buckets of vintage cloth at the Salvation Army Shop and customizes it. No surprise she cuts her bangs by herself.

MAC

„I would go shopping everyday, if i could“, says Mac, 25, who loves Jack Spade and works as stylist. And as assistant in the DC Store. He spread eight tatoos on his body and started to primp, when he was eighteen. At that time he was still living in Minessota, already working in retail. Unbelievable but true: his last name is Donald. „I like classics.“ M(a)c admits.

TAO

„I buy my cloths in stores,“ Tao (29) said. duh - where? "I got the hat at my friends shop, called Stillife in East Village." Last week Tao rescued a five week old kitten, that someone had thrown in the dumpster. It lives now at the music studio Tao has been building since three years. It will be finished at the end of July. Who knows, whether he will record the music of his DJ collective Phonostar or Justin Timberlake?

SUZANNE

Suzanne (49) is famous for singing many Ds, as her last name is Vega. She lives in the Upper West Side and when she doesnt feel like traveling downtown to Daryl K , she pays Barneys a call. Lucky Daryl K suits the taste of the best singers in town as the shop is also the place, where Christian Joy met her muse Karen O, the singer of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

KATHRINE

Here flitters a coat from Elisa Jimene, the New York/ New Mexico-based Designer, who was featured in the television series “Project Runway” over the Williamsburg Bridge. But before we could ask Kathrine, where she was going, she was already on the move.

CHIHARU

Chiharus simple plastic bag wants to be a leather bag. So Marc Jabobs printed lines on it, that look like joints. She bought it and the jacket at Barneys, but her favorite shop in town is Opening Ceremony, that features young European designers like Pulver. Chiharus developes products for GAP and eats best in italian restaurants.

LANE

On weekends assistent director at Jejj Bailey`s Gallery rather visits the Whitney Museum than fancy boutiques. Not that she doesnt like fashion, she orders it at home. „Internet shopping is eclectic and individual“, says Lane. There she bought her thermoplastic Melissa shoes, that Alexandre Herchcovitch designed. Besides him she must like the smell of plastic.

RYAN

We know Ryan Wilde's last name from great poems. „I also share my middle name with Oscar“, she says, but doesn't tell whether it's Fingal, O'Flahertie or Wills. The FIT graduate in Hat Design lives in Park Slope and workes for Patricia Field - so she must like poodles. You can meet her and the hats on weekends at the artist fleamarket in Williamsburg. (www.artistsandfleas.com) Of course this 28-year-old fashionista smiled already on the cover of the WWD fashion magazine.

SAHRA

"Thank you for calling me hip", laughs Sahra (20) born in Miami she moved to New York to attend Parsons School of Design two years ago.
The Levis store is the best store in town, thats where she got her pants. Three more years to go till she will be a photographer, Although she likes New York, she will never stop missing the sun.

MARIJ

Marijs favorite shop in town is H&M, so she stops by once a day. She wears glasses for passion, and paints the empty frames colorful. Too bad you can only see her homepage marijbrooklyn.com not read what its about, unless you understand Japanese.