By Tiffany Press

We all know the classic five monarchs of power dressing, Ralph Lauren, Jil Sander, Calvin Klein, Chanel and now, forever etched in pop culture history, is Prada.

But in the major American style headquarters, where the power players are getting younger and younger and the professions are far from traditional, who’s cashing in on the new generation of big bosses. How are they dressing now, in Soho, in the Hills and in Miami?

Today, you can still tell who has a fashionable career but it isn’t as easy to tell who’s in charge for two primary reasons.

First because of the aforementioned fact that the people “in charge” in creative industries today can be as young as 25.

Second, because our generation has adopted the theory that you should dress for the position you want not the position you have. Eclectic is the name of the game. The key today is to keep it fresh, dress to be taken seriously but never age yourself too far beyond your years. The pencil skirts that work best right now are the ones that give the illusion of being standard, a complex or creatively structured pencil skirt that acts almost as a parody of tradition. It will never go out of style but can appear too stiff for the casual environment of say, managing a photographers studio.