Style and silhouettes from the early aughts are at the forefront of trending fashion in 2022, and the ideas that launched Stacey Bendet as a designer and sparked her foray into business feel magnetic and cool. At the same time, the fashion industry has changed and progressed beyond what anyone could have imagined in 2002. Stacey Bendet’s origins with alice + olivia feel nostalgic and spur longing for the way creativity bloomed before the social media, while at the same time, ideas that stem from the first alice + olivia collection are all over the streets.