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Nicole Phelps

Executive Editor, Style.com. New York

Brag Board. Definition: a square-like area featuring cards, anecdotes, mementos et al praising one’s professional work. Nicole Phelps' brag board is certainly one to boast about. "My favourite note on my brag board came about a year ago from Nicolas Ghesquière," says Phelps. "In Style.com's review of his Spring 2012 Balenciaga show I wrote, ‘The fashion set has long worshipped at the altar of Nicolas Ghesquière,' so he signed his letter, ‘Religiously yours.’” Yes—Balenciaga certainly is our temple, too! Phelps is the Executive Editor of Style.com, meaning she’s responsible for updating our digital style bible all day, every day. A front-row fashion show fixture (who is known for her critical yet irreverent international fashion week coverage), Phelps, together with Who What Wear, let us break down her corporate double doors and snap away at her workspace at Fairchild HQ. She’s currently gearing up for the global fashion week grind (rest up sister, it’s only weeks away) and knows that a pristine office is few and far between. Oh, and we love her stacks on stacks of rad coffeetable books and magazines. "I have subscriptions to tons of magazines," she says, "but Paris Vogue is the one that I never toss." We feel you, Phelps. The best way to spot Phelps at the shows? Look for the one carrying the Samsung 3.2 Mega. "Yes, I know it's a relic," Phelps jokes. Don't be fooled, though. Phelps has her iPhone closeby to Instagram her catwalk favourites. (She's partial to uploading pictures with no filter; we're self-confessed Lo-Fi, Hudson and Amaro addicts.) We highly reccomend you follow her (@styledotcomnicole)... especially during fashion week! Religiously yours, The Coveteur.

A souvenir from a story at Elle Magazine.

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Fairchild CEO Gina Sanders calls this my 'Brag board.'

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Style.com's first ad campaign promoting New York Fashion Week. The only thing better than coming up with alliterations like Passionate about Proenza Schouler and Zany For Zac Posen was seeing it plastered all over Manhattan.

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Marina Larroudé , Style.com's market director, is always telling me to get a shelf. She's right. I inevitably need something out of one of the books closest to the bottom. Some of them date to my Elle Magazine days and even have Post-it notes from back then. I love opening something and finding little time capsules like that.

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This is the invitation to Alexander McQueen's Spring 2010 Plato's Atlantis show. I don't usually hang onto invites, but this one was special, its lenticular design changes from a normal girl—well, if you can call Raquel Zimmermann, who starred in the video that played behind the runway, normal—and an underwater alien. Of course, it was McQueen's last show while he was alive; now I'll never get rid of it.

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I have subscriptions to tons of magazines, but Paris Vogue is the one that I never toss.

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Condé Nast Digital editorial director Jamie Pallot and Style.com's editor in chief Dirk Standen presented this to me at a lunch at the Lambs Club. A job at Style.com comes with a lot of perks, but the best thing about it has always been the people I work with.

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I held onto these boxes because I love their Art Nouveau design.

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This is another Karl Lagerfeld memento. Way, way back in 1996, when Bill Clinton was re-elected President, WWD held a survey asking what Hillary should wear to the Inauguration Ball. As the assistant to Etta Froio at the time, I was the girl who received all the entries. Karl Lagerfeld's came on personalized stationery, naturally, and with a trademark quip. He chose a Donna Karan look that was modeled by Linda Evangelista, or some other Glamazon, and wrote, "The body can be ordered, too?"

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I'm not a bag freak, so I appreciate its simplicity and how anonymous this one is.

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Bag, Reed Krakoff

My favorite note on it came about a year ago from Nicolas Ghesquière. In Style.com's review of his Spring 2012 Balenciaga show I wrote, "...the fashion set has long worshipped at the altar of Nicolas Ghesquière," so he signed his letter, "Religiously yours."

Read More

A souvenir from a story at Elle Magazine.

I am a creature of habit: yogurt, fruit, and a Starbucks for breakfast, and for lunch a salad from Pret a Manger or Le Pain Quotidien, or if I'm really lucky, leftovers that my husband packs me. He's the house chef since our son was born.

Fairchild CEO Gina Sanders calls this my 'Brag board.' Bag, Céline

Style.com's first ad campaign promoting New York Fashion Week. The only thing better than coming up with alliterations like Passionate about Proenza Schouler and Zany For Zac Posen was seeing it plastered all over Manhattan.

These line drawings arrived in the mail one day from Tibi designer Amy Smilovic. I should have them framed, they're so pretty.

Marina Larroudé , Style.com's market director, is always telling me to get a shelf. She's right. I inevitably need something out of one of the books closest to the bottom. Some of them date to my Elle Magazine days and even have Post-it notes from back then. I love opening something and finding little time capsules like that.

This is the invitation to Alexander McQueen's Spring 2010 Plato's Atlantis show. I don't usually hang onto invites, but this one was special, its lenticular design changes from a normal girl—well, if you can call Raquel Zimmermann, who starred in the video that played behind the runway, normal—and an underwater alien. Of course, it was McQueen's last show while he was alive; now I'll never get rid of it.

I have subscriptions to tons of magazines, but Paris Vogue is the one that I never toss.

Condé Nast Digital editorial director Jamie Pallot and Style.com's editor in chief Dirk Standen presented this to me at a lunch at the Lambs Club. A job at Style.com comes with a lot of perks, but the best thing about it has always been the people I work with.

My office will never be this neat and clean again. At Style.com we always say that "the internet never sleeps," and during fashion show season our staff doesn't sleep much either. But even during the three months of the year that we're not covering shows (April, August, and November) it's still full-on just getting the daily content up.

I don't usually buy them for myself, but I love fresh flowers. If someone asks for a florist, I usually recommend VSF on 10th Street in the West Village.

I love Peter Dundas's tomboyish take on sexy. Not that these necessarily qualify… Shoes, Emilio Pucci

I received these pencils as a present from my W Magazine days, somewhere around 1998. The gift that keeps on giving…

I held onto these boxes because I love their Art Nouveau design.

This is another Karl Lagerfeld memento. Way, way back in 1996, when Bill Clinton was re-elected President, WWD held a survey asking what Hillary should wear to the Inauguration Ball. As the assistant to Etta Froio at the time, I was the girl who received all the entries. Karl Lagerfeld's came on personalized stationery, naturally, and with a trademark quip. He chose a Donna Karan look that was modeled by Linda Evangelista, or some other Glamazon, and wrote, "The body can be ordered, too?"

I'm not a bag freak, so I appreciate its simplicity and how anonymous this one is. Bag, Reed Krakoff

My favorite note on it came about a year ago from Nicolas Ghesquière. In Style.com's review of his Spring 2012 Balenciaga show I wrote, "...the fashion set has long worshipped at the altar of Nicolas Ghesquière," so he signed his letter, "Religiously yours."