DVF and Other Top Designers Have Some Pretty Fantastic Advice For You

Peter Som: If could ask any person, dead or alive, for advice, it would be . . . "Oprah. And maybe we could drink a few Moscow Mules and hang out for a while, too?"

Betsey Johnson: The last thing I do before bed is . . . "Take two Advil PM and wish on a star."

Narciso Rodriguez: My favorite item I've ever designed is . . . "Carolyn Bessette Kennedy's wedding dress."

Nanette Lepore: My ideal mentor is . . . "Sigmund Freud."

Illustration by Bil Donovan