NEW YORK, Friday, February 8, 2008 - Everyone in fashion has a good Susan Cianciolo anecdote. After her show last night (last season marked her comeback to Fashion Week), in the car on the way to Zac Posen, Domino's Lauren Goodman remembered, "she did a show at Christie's once and Liz Goldwyn came over and put cucumber-scented perfume on me that Susan had made." Vogue's Meredith Melling Burke said, "One of her collections had the coolest tee-shirt dresses with thread and buttons on them. Her show was always a must-see."

This fashion writer thinks it still is. So must style arbiters Sarah Lerfel of Colette and Paper's Kim Hastreiter and Mickey Boardman - who sat together in the front row. Cianciolo's fall offerings had snippets of patchwork, beading, even tulle.

And they were made of organic and fair trade materials. "She's always been at the forefront of eco-fashion," says Vogue's Jane Herman, who has her own quirky Cianciolo story. "Susan has used recycled denim for a long time. She told me she would distress her jeans by leaving them on the roof of her building for days, which would get her in trouble with her landlord!”