Kendall Becker is a freelance editor & stylist, full-time fashion forecasting assistant and part-time blogger at fromtherealist.com. After studying Fashion Merchandising, Media & Marketing at Kent State University, she now lives in New York pursuing her dreams of surviving and thriving in the fashion industry.

Kendall is one of the gals I’ve gotten to know via Instagram, and we finally met this past NYFW! She is such a sweet person, and I know you’ll love her gorgeous city-chic style and bubbly personality!

Kayla Maryly Omsberg is an FIT Fashion Design graduate and Assistant Designer at Grey State Apparel. She’s lived all over the country--from Virgina, to New Jersey, to California before settling in NYC. She’s an incredible fashion sketch artist, and one of the most genuinely kind people I know! She loves hunting for vintage finds, painting watercolor, halo top ice cream, and listening to 60's music (especially Brigitte Bardot).

Kayla was actually one of my suite mates freshman year at FIT, and while I miss having 24/7 access to her stunning closet, I’m lucky to have had such great gals like her that first year!

Her Style is a bi-weekly article on Southern New Yorker, showcasing one fashionable woman styling a current trend of her choice, accompanied by an interview with her on fashion, beauty, career, and more!

Daphna Ben-Ari is a Brooklyn native, FIT alumni, and assistant planner at Barneys New York. Her feminine and trendy style perfectly fits her empathetic and caring personality! 

I met Daphna while studying abroad together in college, and we instantly clicked as sisters (and not just because everyone thinks we look like twins!)

Her Israeli-Jewish heratige is very important to her, and she talks more in her interview about some of the values that her religion and culture instilled in her, as well as her beauty mistakes as a teenager!

Jennyfer Gallagher is a Wholesale assistant for Balmain Paris, a French-Canadian turner New Yorker, and a fellow FIT Alumni. She also graduated from LaSalle College in Montreal with a degree in Fashion Marketing degree before making the move to NYC!

She’s a designer fashion fanatic, and can be seen scouring every sample sale in Manhattan, and has one of the kindest, and most genuine hearts of anyone I know! She’s simultaneously the boujie-est and most down to earth person I know, and she’s got a killer sense of style that I know you’ll love!

Her Style is a bi-weekly article on Southern New Yorker, showcasing one fashionable woman styling a current trend of her choice, accompanied by an interview with her on fashion, beauty, career, and more!

Lucero (Lulu) Gamez is originally from Upstate New York, and moved to NYC to attend The Fashion Institute of Technology. She is the first in her family to graduate college, and now works as a Product Development (position) at Dreamwear! Lulu and I met our freshman year of college, and her bubbly personality instantly made me want to be friends! She always has a smile on her face, and a margarita in-hand, but she’s also the friend you can go to for unconditional love and support!

Lulu has a style all her own, that’s just as vibrant as her personality, and mixes her Latina flair with whatever style she chooses to take on that day! Get to know Lulu better in her interview, and see how we both styled the Boiler Suit trend:

Her Style is a bi-weekly article on Southern New Yorker, showcasing one fashionable woman styling a current trend of her choice, accompanied by an interview with her on fashion, beauty, career, and more!

Kiana Brooks is a Fashion Institute of Technology grad, an assistant buyer at Gucci for Men's Ready-to-Wear, and a Georgia peach turned New Yorker. She has been one of my close friends since studying abroad together in Florence, Italy during college, and has such an electric personality that makes everyone instantly love her! Her style shows her vibrant personality, and mixes her Atlanta roots with a Manhattan chic that is all her own.

See how we both styled the leopard print trend in our own ways, and read her fun interview where she talks everything from fashion to faith!

Her Style is a bi-weekly article on Southern New Yorker, showcasing one fashionable woman styling a current trend of her choice, accompanied by an interview with her on fashion, beauty, career, and more!

Sophia Kountakis is a fellow Texan turned New Yorker, and is currently working on her Masters in Architecture at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn after getting her Bachelors of Environmental Design from Texas A&M. She is interested in all types of design ranging from buildings to fashion. Sophia would eventually like to own her own store when she creates objects, fashion, and accessories to sell. She’s Greek, and her family is originally from Crete where she goes back to for a month every summer!