Donna Karan
With the Sag Harbor outpost of her Urban Zen store newly opened, this vibrant retailer, philanthropist, and chairwoman/head designer of her namesake collection, Donna Karan is perhaps also the hardest-working hostess in the Hamptons. Karan's most famous houseguest is long-time friend Barbra Streisand, with her own quarters in residence. As a tireless founder of charities, including her Urban Zen clothing initiative, one of Karan's first benevolent acts came in 1985 when she rescued women from their big-shouldered selves, successfully benching the power-suit with her casual tailoring and elegantly draped co-ordinates. DKNY's simple but revelatory merging of casual and couture, ensured that Karan's initials would be forever fashionably linked to those of the city's. A Long Island native, Karan was raised in Hewlett, but with an inherent love of all things Eastern, it now seems a natural move for her to drift eastward to our coastal hamlets. Her retreat in East Hampton is decorated with a posh-meets-zen aesthetic, and the long-time Hamptons resident and yoga devotee has built a spa and yoga studio in her garden here.

Yigal Azrouél

Dennis Basso

Stacey Bendet

Thom Browne

Tory Burch

Christiane Celle

Sean Combs

Damon Dash

Lyn Devon

Prince Dimitri of Yugoslavia

Randolf Duke

Tracy Feith

Tory Burch
For her sprawling oceanfront home in Southampton, Tory Burch needs to consult friend and decorator Daniel Romualdez on where she should place the new CFDA Award (the fashion world's Oscar) that she just claimed two weeks ago, besting no less than Marc Jacobs and Michael Kors in the process. Of course she is keeping Romualdez plenty busy with her East Hampton store as well, having recently expanded it to three times its original size. With 14 stores currently dotting the globe, Burch is expanding at the rate of five new stores per year, most recently in Houston; new openings will shortly include Palm Beach, Malibu, San Francisco and a showroom in Milan. The latter speaks to her ambitious plan for European expansion. Having launched only four years ago, the meteoric rise of her chic collection of clothes and accessories is surely tied to the focused vision she brings to the design. Her influences include David Hicks, the 1960s and her mother Reva; you'll recognize her name from the popular ballet flats Tory labeled after her mother. In her youth, Reva's suitors included Steve McQueen, and on several occasions she rode out to the Hamptons on the back of his motorcycle. While Tory never hopped on the handlebars of her own famous suitor, Lance Armstrong, she too made waves in the Hamptons while being squired by him. But strapping male icons can't compare with a stylish woman who has managed to share a little of her glamour with the rest of us. Now all anyone can talk about is Tory.