Stacey Bendet

Stacey “Staceypants” Bendet was born Stacey Wiener in Chappaqua, New York. She graduated from Horace Greeley High School and went on to the University of Penn where she was a member of the gymnastics team. Stacey turned to a life of fashion after an interview on Wall Street. She rollerbladed to the interview in “orange pants and a fur bomber jacket” only to leave immediately after seeing her competition.

Stacey then turned to the internet where she designed web sites for fashion houses. That designing led her and a friend to start “Alice + Olivia” with their first show involving models wearing “pants with Partridge Family–style vertical stripes and not much else besides some strategically placed bouquets.” The show was a success with requests from celebrities and stores like Fred Segal and Barneys, where she went on to be a pants designer, came pouring in.

As with all of New York’s elite, rumors fly, but Bendet herself is responsible for the one about attending her yoga classes drunk. Also, some say she is reaping the benefits of her parents money and her partner is actually the talented one, while Bendet yells, makes people cry, and takes laxatives all day.

Oh, the price one pays for being rich and famous. On the good side, Bendet reportedly does charity work for organizations like the New York Pubilc Library and Wyclef Jean’s Yele Haiti Organization.

Designer Stacey Bendet, designs the Alice + Olivia women's and kids collections in addition to a shoe collection for Payless. She has been on the Vanity Fair Best Dressed list for two years in a row. Last year, she was married to Eric Eisner, and the couple had their first child, Eloise Breckenridge Eisner, on November 24, 2008.