Ummul Banin Yamani
31, nonprofit founder, www.jointhesurge.org
What are you wearing? A Proenza Schouler dress and BCBG Max Azria shoes.
Describe your style: Uncategorizable, I like to think! The dress I'd describe as organic modernist.
How can architecture inspire fashion? In much the same way that fashion inspires style.
What spot in history would your outfit fit in best? A warm evening in 2008, perhaps at a museum retrospective of a midcentury designer.
James Peterson
38, hairstylist/event planner
What are you wearing? A shirt and jacket from Club Monaco, a vintage tie, Converse shoes and Blinde glasses.
Describe your style: Eclectic. I like mixing old and new, and I usually buy items that I like instead of by what brand they are.
How can architecture inspire fashion? Whether modern, classic or contemporary, architecture is about style, just like fashion.
What spot in history would your outfit fit in best? The early '60s.
Dottie Cannon
25, community relations specialist, Target
What are you wearing? A Steve Madden dress, a BCBG clutch and Isaac Mizrahi shoes from Target.
Describe your style: Basics aficionado.
How can architecture inspire fashion? You'd understand if you've seen ["Project Runway" winner] Jay McCarroll's Empire State Building-inspired dress. Same steel color, Art Deco structure and beauty.
What spot in history would your outfit fit in best? The shape is the '60s; the color is the '70s.
Beth Hammarlund
27, finance; editor-in-chief of L'etoile magazine
What are you wearing? A Target Private Collection dress, an Alice Temperley for Target belt, Target tights and gold hoops, and Vera Wang for Kohl's boots and clutch.
Describe your style: I mix low-end, vintage and occasionally designer pieces together.
How can architecture inspire fashion? On the literal end, you have Hussein Chayalan. Incorporating subtler references are Miuccia Prada, Alexander McQueen and Vivienne Westwood.
What spot in history would your outfit fit in best? The 1980s.
