The Belle

Christy Turlington Burns (born January 2, 1969) is an American model best known for representing Calvin Klein from 1987 to 2007. She has worked on dozens of modeling contracts with companies including Maybelline Cosmetics and Versace. Turlington starred in her fashion documentary Catwalk andIsaac Mizrahi's Unzipped.

The Master Balenciaga

Balenciaga is a fashion house founded by Cristóbal Balenciaga, a Spanish designer, born in the Basque Country, Spain. He had a reputation as a couturier of uncompromising standards and was referred to as "the master of us all" by Christian Dior. His bubble skirts and odd, feminine, yet ultra-modern shapes were trademarks of the house. The house of Balenciaga is now owned by the French multinational company PPR

The New Blood

How does a skinny, 6-foot-1, 21-year-old who lives with his grandparents in St. Albans, Queens, go from sneaking into fashion shows to showing his own runway collection tomorrow?

The answer is a classic New York City tale of a little hustle and a lot of talent.

In the past year, LaQuan Smith has created custom pieces for the likes of Lady Gaga and Rihanna, but he's been making clothes since he got a sewing machine for Christmas when he was 13.

"My friends were all getting PlayStations and I wanted a machine and fabric," says Smith, adding, "I don't think I chose fashion, fashion chose me."

After graduating high school and being rejected by FIT twice, Smith decided to forgo college to try to break into the fashion world. He got his foot in the door scoring an internship with BlackBook magazine, working for fashion editor Elizabeth Sulcer.

The Mad Scientist

Hussein Chalayan (born 1970) is a British/Turkish Cypriot fashion designer who graduated from Central Saint Martins in 1993. Hussein Chalayan was born in Nicosia in 1970 and graduated from the Turkish Maarif College of his hometown. He moved with his family to England in 1978, obtaining British citizenship. He first studied for a National Diploma in fashion and clothing at Warwickshire School of Arts, and proceeded to study Fashion Design atCentral Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London. His graduate collection in 1993, titled "The Tangent Flows", contained clothes which he had buried in his back yard and dug up again. An instant sensation, the whole collection was purchased and displayed in luxury designer store Browns in London.

Kell On Earth

Kelly Cutrone (born November 13, 1965) is a fashion publicist and the founder of the public relations, branding and marketing firm People's Revolution. Kelly now stars in her own reality drama Kell on Earth. Kelly Cutrone is from Camillus, a small town in upstate New York. She moved to New York City, where she got her start in public relations, when she was just 21 years of age. Before starting her own public relations firm with Jason Weinberg, Cutrone and Weignberg, in the early 90s, Kelly worked for a stint at Susan Blond, Inc. and as the public relations director of Spin magazine. Kelly ultimately left Cutrone and Weignberg, which is now Untitled Entertainment, and took some time off from public relations before starting People’s Revolution in 1996. People’s Revolution is a fashion public relations, marketing and branding firm that has represented brands such as Longchamp, Vivienne Westwood, Valentino, Jeremy Scott, Paco Rabanne, Thierry Mugler, Bulgari, Christie's, Agent Provocateur, and Alexandre Herchcovitch. “The company occupies three floors of a building on Grand Street in Soho, and Ms. Cutrone lives in a spacious loft in the same building with her 6-year-old daughter, Ava.”

At 24, she married Andy Warhol’s protégé Ronnie Cutrone, who is a pop artist best known for his large-scale paintings of America’s favorite cartoon characters. After her second marriage, Kelly had a brief love affair with Ilario Calvo, the father of her child, whom she met in Paris.

Creativity Behind Vogue: Grace Coddington

Grace Coddington (born 1941) is a former model and the creative director of American Vogue magazine.

The Eye Behind The Lens: Annie

Anna-Lou "Annie" Leibovitz (born October 2, 1949) is an American portrait photographer. In high school, she became interested in various artistic endeavours, and began to write and play music. She attended the San Francisco Art Institute, where she studied painting. There she learnt all her skills from her teacher Sasha Michelle, who Annie says she owes a lot of her career to. When Leibovitz returned to the United States in 1970, she started her career as staff photographer, working for the just launched Rolling Stone magazine. In 1973, publisher Jann Wenner named Leibovitz chief photographer of Rolling Stone, a job she would hold for 10 years. Leibovitz worked for the magazine until 1983, and her intimate photographs of celebrities helped define the Rolling Stonelook. While working for Rolling Stone, Leibovitz became more aware of the other magazines. Richard Avedon's portraits were an important and powerful example in her life. She learned that you can work for magazines and still do your own personal work, which for her was the most important thing. It is much more intimate and tells a story for her as she works with people who love her and who will "Open their hearts and souls and lives to you."