Su on the right, Su's dress on the left. Hotness.

CollegeCandy loves lots of things, but two of our favorites? Fashion Week and terrific, creative college girls.

And guess what? There’s one fabulous female who brings our two favorite things together (besides peanut butter and chocolate): student and fashion designer, the lovely Su Beyazit.

Su, who hails from North Carolina and has ties to Turkey, resides in the Lower East Side of NYC and attends the New School (oh hey, Project Runway!) studying Integrated Design. Yes, she’s sick of answering, but indeed she has met Tim Gunn and was in an elevator with Miss Klum.

“She’s tall,” Su said of the encounter with Heidi, “Really tall.”

Su’s most recent design was spotted on “As the World Turns” star, Meredith Hagner on the red carpet for the daytime Emmy awards. Twenty two years old and already designing for the red carpet? Color me impressed.

I met with Su at a vegan cafe in the Lower East Side where we discussed fashion, grafitti and Frida Kahlo over veggie burgers and handmade drawings with the crayons provided for us. Su’s effervescent personality lit up the entire cafe. She demystifies the fashion industry and her personality sits at the opposite end of the spectrum of Rachel Zoe’s; it’s all smiles and no “ba-nanas” with this curly haired pin-up doll of a person.

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