Lap of Luxury

DAZZLING ACCESSORIES FOR FALL

Thirty-two-year-old Stacey Lapidus, a former accessories editor at Vanity Fair, is launching an eponymous line of festive, fearless bags and beribboned rhinestone jewelry—available at such stores as New York's Bergdorf Goodman and Kirna Zabete. Lapidus's inspiration came while she was creative director for her family's company, Bag Borrow or Steal, which lends members designer purses. Her brother joked that the ugliest bags were the most popular, so she should order only ones she didn't like. Better yet, why didn't she design her own? Her line of belts and bracelets that pair frayed silk ribbons with braids of rhinestones and her distressed-leather purses, accented with flowers, jewels, and Liberty-print lining, are favored by celebrities such as Heidi Klum and Jessica Simpson. "My things are for girls who are a little risky when it comes to fashion," the designer says. "For me, more is more: the more it doesn't match, the more I like it."

CHRISTINE MUHLKE