Phillip Lim! Thank you all for voting for FabSugar Designer of the Year. To see the final results, click here. And congratulations to 3.1 Phillip Lim! Since I now know who your favorite designer from 2006 was, and Lim's Spring designs are starting to appear in stores, to buy them, read more Read more

I hope you all participated in the FabSugar Designer of the Year running last month. In case you missed it, you can still participate! Check out the nominees and vote. I will be announcing the winner this Friday! As of right now, though, it looks like 3.1 Phillip Lim is in the lead with Louis Vuitton in a close second. Vote baby vote! View 5 Photos ›1326221818-1 Read more

Behold, the fifth and final nominee for FabSugar Designer of the Year: 3.1 Phillip Lim. This young designer is relatively new to the fashion scene, although those familiar with the label Development, would recognize his fresh tailoring and sweet blouses. In 2004, the designer left Development to start a new line with a friend, and now business partner, spawning 3.1 Phillip Lim. Interestingly, the Read more

Whether this designer wins FabSugar Designer of the Year or not, 2006 was definitely a plentiful year for Doo.Ri. This new designer won both the Perry Ellis Award for emerging talent in womenswear and the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund in the past year and based on your response to her Spring '07 collection she may have a third win coming her way. Doo.Ri has a rags-to-riches story. In 2001, Doori Chung Read more

The third nominee for FabSugar Designer of the Year is what you get when you pair one of the oldest French fashion houses with one of New York's fashion darlings. In 1997, Marc Jacobs was crowned the designer for Louis Vuitton and his collections have been spot on ever since. Pre-LV Marc Jacobs designed for Perry Ellis in 1986, and his tightly-knit polo shirts and cable knit cashmere sweater Read more

Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCollough, the wonder boys behind Proenza Schouler, are the second nominee for FabSugar Designer of the Year. You all seemed to fancy them when I wrote a Spring '07 runway review and soon we'll all be able to experience this duos designs on the cheap via Target in the Spring (yay!). Though I admittingly still have a hard time pronouncing their design name, a combo of Read more

Oh to be Donatella Versace. Talk about the ultimate jet-setter, Donatella is one of fashion's most decadent divas. While Versace is historically known for electric colored, body-hugging, sex-oozing designs she shined this year with more wearable, tailored collections. But don't get me wrong - her Fall '06 and Spring '07 collections were still all about grandiose sexiness. When she took the design Read more

2006 was the year of the fashion designer. Actually, it was the year of the dog, but to me, it was the year of the fashion designer. This week I am going to profile five designers up for the FabSugar Designer of the Year and then we're all going to vote on Friday. You may want to take yourselves out of holiday mode and back to our Fashion Week coverage to prepare. Who are the nominees? You'll Read more