Nickname: Bananas Foster

Gramicci Head Since: designing the menswear line since 2007

Favorite Gramicci Item: too many to choose from but for guys I think the Bonfire Poncho looks super mantastic.

Hometown: St. Joseph, Michigan (a great place to be from)

Current City: Pacific Palisades (one of my favorite shows Saved by the Bell was set in Palisades…just a trivia tid bit for ya)

Pets: Rio and Finigan. Rio smiles all the time, I have never seen a dog smile so much and I think Finigan is part cat because his fur is so soft.

My Style: I love fashion. I mean LOVE it. So I would say that my style is borderline trendy but with a classic and practical twist. I love to accessorize and like most typical girls, I love shoes.

Design Inspiration: Anything and everything inspires me for design. I can get inspiration from looking at a crack in the sidewalk and translating it into a new wash for our wovens. But, what I find to be the most inspiring for my life, is hanging out with an eclectic group of friends. Their stories, hearing their laughter and seeing them smile is what truly inspires me.

Best Breakfast Ever: Since I do not cook, the best breakfast is one that someone makes for me. Preferably my husband’s breakfast burritos.

I love: the word love and use it way too often, I also love magazines (fashion, travel, music, art, and interior design) I have stacks of magazines all over my house, I love music (listening to it not playing it), riding my bike along the beach, hanging out with my dogs, kissing my husband on the forehead before he heads off to work, sleeping in on a Saturday morning, dinner parties with friends, and smiling. I really love to smile.

I can’t hardly wait to: design the next season for Gramicci!

Nickname: DRE DAWG

Gramicci Head Since: 2008

Favorite Gramicci Item: Vintage G Pant in Dourada twill , color Santa Fe Khaki

Hometown: Atlantic Beach, Florida

Pets: Petunia the French bulldog, Flippy the fish, Peanut Butter Bob and Butterscotch the hamsters, Cat the cat, Venus the komodo dragon

My style: Minimalist, authentic, vintage, old world style

Design Inspiration: cleaning the kitchen, DMV, jury duty (I meet a lot of interesting people there).

Best Breakfast Ever: still searching for the early morning breakfast although I love the standard of eggs over medium, bacon, grits, biscuits and gravy and black coffee for dinner.

I can’t hardly wait for: to show the fall ’10 collection!

I love: My kids, the Austrian Alps, the rolling stones, hiking the pyramids at Teotihuacan, Dios de los muertos, carnivals, sleeping late, aerosmith, humidity and tropical storms, the band Heart, the Costa Rican rainforest , Halloween, The Doors, sweat lodges and burning copal, keylime pie, southern fried chicken and boiled peanuts, the Jackson 5, lavender fields, Frieda Kahlo, summer camp, walking to school, Paris swap meets, traveling, and many many other things…………….

Books I am reading now: ( I like to read a lot of books at once) Spy In The House of Love by Anais Nin, Zuni Fetishes, Zelda – the story of Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald, Blessed Unrest, The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky.

Books I always read: Carlos Castaneda, The Prophet, The Power of Now, Science of Being and Art of Living by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Be Here Now by Ram Dass, Tibetan Book of the Dead.

Nickname: Piper Michelle

Gramicci Head Since: Designing on the Men’s Team since 2007, but a Gramicci Head for a lot longer than that!

Favorite Gramicci Item: the Men’s Granite Short – I can barely get my boyfriend to take them off 0_o ::laughs::

Hometown: Cincinnati, OH-- Go Bengals!

Current City: Beautiful Santa Monica, CA. What?! It’s 72° and sunny again?!

Pets: Two gorgeous Rat Terriers. The wee little Peanut, at 8 lbs, and the always-enthusiastic Butters, who can clear our 6 ft fence, but please don’t tell him that!

My Style: is free-spirited and ready to take on the next adventure. I’m a Sagittarius to the T, and I dress accordingly. Comfort and function are necessary, but just as much is the confidence that comes with feeling great too.

Design Inspiration: the amazing places I get to travel to for climbing and cycling, along with the incredible personalities I meet along the way.

Best Breakfast Ever: Well, anyone who’s been over for breakfast before knows that it’s the Spencer Canon’s pancakes with a side of sun-dried tomato scrambled eggs. Yum!

I love: Almonds (Butter, Milk, and Raw), Baking Biscuits, Bouldering, Boxing, Chewy Looking Deltoids, Climbing, Dinosaurs, Doorframe Pull-Ups, Green, Guitar, Hueco Tanks, Hugs, Ice Cream, My Mom, Pilates and Pirates (but not together), Red River Gorge, Robots, Sewing, Smiling (perhaps my favorite), Sushi, Tea, Triceps, Underwear, Video games that make you want to ROKK!, Water (and drinking lots of it!), Yoga, and I guess alphabetizing!

I can’t hardly wait to: go climbing this weekend! What’ll it be? Bishop, Black Mountain, Tramway? Or perhaps a spin along the beach and through the Santa Monica Mountains! Oh! I could take the dogs for a run and some yoga in the park. Hm, or a good chance to try out that new recipe I’ve been eyeing from thekitchn.com . So many options...