Few fashion designers today are as magical as the Brooklyn-based Samantha Pleet. With an obsessive love of history and travel, Pleet designs to enchant her customers. (She also makes a ravishing witch, in costume of course!) When it came to designing her fall collection, Pleet was inspired by her recent trip to Iceland.

Opening the door to Samantha Pleet's studio is like entering an exotic fantasy world. It's filled with a jumble of artifacts, tiny knick-knacks, and

I wish I could say that Amanda Pearl's presentation featured lots of pearls and Samantha Pleet showed lots of pleating. Unfortunately, neither of these things is true. And the two presentations had nothing in common other than the fact that they both occurred yesterday evening and featured an abundance of cute things that I wanted. Both were also very green, but in very different ways. First, we stopped by Amanda Pearl's presentation at Matles Florist.

Sandy may have put a major (pun time!) damper on Halloween, but you shouldn't go rowing back to Party City, receipt in hand, just yet. I'm pretty sure most of that stuff is final sale anyway. Click through for helpful tips on how to realistically repurpose your unused Halloween costume.