I just started my sophomore year of high school last week and it's really hard to be chic with the super stiff dress code my school insists on making us follow.

Unfortunately, it's not quite Gossip Girl, I can't accessorize my plaid mini with thigh highs and patent heels. But does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can spice up my basic dress code?

I don't want to be stuck wearing skinny jeans and polo shirt all year.

Please help!

Thanks!

Dear Everyone,

We'd love to start featuring more international streetwalkers - but we're going to need your help!

Natalie and I are obviously in New York 99% of the time, so we would love it if you guys started sending in street style pictures from your own hometowns and cities.

But first, a few rules: The pictures have to be on the street. They have to adhere to our streetwalker format. And most importantly, they must be cute!

If we like what we see, we'll make it a regular feature on the site and you'll get a published story with your by-line.

You can e-mail either of us: britt@fashionista.com or natalie@fashionista.com.

Please include images of the front, back and any special accessory, and we'll let you know if we'll use it on the site!

Thanks guys!

xo, F

I'm going to Paris next month and staying until June. Everyone keeps telling me to layer and wear scarves, which i already do at home. Does anyone have packing tips or particular essential items i should get? thanks!

Posh Spice owns 100 Hermès handbags. We realize this is common knowledge but we still bat it around the office regularly with general disbelief.

Blair Waldorf probably has 100 headbands, and Aerin Lauder has a closet full of black pants, but is there a singular signature item that you would buy in bulk at Costco (like Tom Ford Sunglasses)?

My best friend's mom has 21 pairs of leopard print shoes. But this has more to do with the fact that she loves leopard print and shoes, and has the means to buy a surplus of both. We know another woman that collects David Yurman Jewelry, and owns nearly every piece he's ever made. But my personal favorite is a woman I know that buys three of everything to honor her three daughters. Seriously, three Hermès porcelain bracelets (is this an Hermès thing?), three identical Chanel handbags, three brightly colored Tod's loafers, whatever.

On the other hand, I've heard people talk about how freeing it is to have a uniform. Living like perpetual school girls, some women buy multiples to make their morning routine less stressful, and sleep a little longer without thinking about the excruciating sartorial decision waiting within their closet. I know from experience that this is really helpful, when you only have a couple shirts and a few pairs of jeans and cords, as I do, getting dressed is a five minute proposition.

So I guess what we're wondering here is whether collecting clothes is a byproduct of considerable means, or a call for simplicity, and perhaps more importantly, does anyone else actually do this? Or is this a myth perpetuated by Anna Wintour and her Prada dress fixation?

--BRETT KANE

We're curious:

Who do you guys think is going to walk away champion of this season's Project Runway?

No really, we want to know.

Check out each designer's full collection, here.

Tell us who you think it is! And maybe we'll let you know if you're right...

--JAZZI McGILBERT