The week when spring meets fall is here: Fashion Week 2009. Anna Wintour, the ultimate fashionista and Vogue editorial guru, gives New York Magazine a different side of her contributions to the fashion world — starting in Queens, N.Y.

Vintage is a staple of modern-day fashion. Mixing the old with the new has become every fashionista's habit because it's a way to look unique, creating a style impossible to copy. Believe it or not, C-U is no stranger to the very vogue vintage fashion. Come along with Sindha Agha as she walks around downtown Champaign, reviewing various vintage stores and talking to the people inside.

Most girls have problems buying clothes that fit them because designers keep catering to tall, stick-thin fashion models. "The Science of Sexy" by Bradley Bayou successfully acknowledges that women have a variety of body shapes, and it does so in a way no other book can match. Kahlilah Cooke applauds the author and his work.

Eleni Yannelis loved the Gap as a kid — the clothes were comfortable and never seemed to rip or stain. But if you wanted something stylish you had to look elsewhere. So imagine Eleni's surprise when she visited the Gap recently and found that it had reinvented itself — with innovative clothing lines but still-reasonable prices. What accounts for the change? Two words: Patrick Robinson.

It was another year of fabulous fashion, despite an economy on the downturn. There's always a way to look great, even on modest means, and designers gave fashionistas plenty of options in 2008. Elaine Gu serves as our guide to the most stylish trends to come out of the past 12 months.

The creators of The Smart Second Skin Dress claim that "nature has endowed us with one skin too few" and a "fully sentient being should wear its nervous system externally." Welcome to the brave new world of "living clothes," where your scent-spraying dress can create its own smell bubble. Not that Eleni Yannelis turns up her nose at scientific progress, but is this really what we need?

Who needs to schlep around town (or travel to Chicago or elsewhere) to find the latest fashions? Especially during the holiday season, online shopping is the way to go, according to Eleni Yannelis, a confirmed shopaholic who doesn't need to step inside a store to get her fix. Check inside to find out why online shopping can't be beat, and learn about some of Eleni's favorite shopping sites.

With prom less than three weeks away, everyone has thought about whom to ask, where to go to dinner, and what to do after the dance is over. But unlike the majority of the male population, girls have another thing on their minds: the dress. Juniors Lizzy Warner, Deborah Ladd, and Lauren Piester debate the pros and cons of one of the many significant parts of the dress: the length.