Samantha Pleet

Name: Erin What do you do? I work in product development. What would you never be caught wearing? A wrap dress. If you could raid anyone's wardrobe, whose would you choose?

Rachel Roy to Release Footwear Line: As a few non-designers zealously stamp their names on shoe lines, actual designer Rachel Roy is expanding her brand, adding a footwear collection to the two clothing and accessory lines bearing her namesake. Due out in August, Rachel Roy collection consists of flats, boots, and naturally, pumps inspired by long-time mentor and collaborator, Manolo Blahnik. {WWD, subscription required} i-D Rings in The Year of the Dragon: ... with a set of 12 absolutely stunning covers featuring Asian models rocking some breathtaking hair and makeup. Photographed by Chen Man with the help of M.A.C's Director of Makeup Artistry, Terry Barber, these seriously gorgeous covers are worth framing and mounting in your salon. {Models} Alexa Chung Designs a Teddy Bear: For the BBC's Children in Need charity, Alexa Chung joins the ranks of designers like Giles and Louis Vuitton, designing a version of their iconic Pudsey Bear. Alexa keeps Pudsey's look relatively simple, in ink blue velvet and a red and white heart-embroidered bandana. {Vogue UK}

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.

Designer Samantha Pleet is a Halloween obsessive. From her signature Little Red Riding Hood costume to her adorable sailor romper, she's a fancy-dress master. Click though to see Samantha's top costume ideas, put together with some of her own ready-to-wear designs!

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.

Though the tribal print trend seems to be heading out the door, there is something so cute and chic about the ikat print specifically that makes us want to wear it in as many ways as possible. It's been on a few runways recently, including as Dries Van Noten, Gucci, Marc and Balenciaga. Our love for ikat blossomed even more yesterday when we checked out Cynthia Vincent's upcoming Resort 2011 accessories collection, which was full of the colorful print. See above for our inspiration and click through for some more accessible examples that you can buy right now.

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

Parlor, the New York showroom representing emerging brands like Lorick and Rachel Antonoff, is taking its show on the road. Starting April 7, it's bri