We love hearing from you ladies and gentlemen. Whether it's an impromptu introduction on the street, an encouraging comment, or in this particular case, a personal email...we appreciate it all. Cue Grace Pearson, pictured here in her favorite bespoke French navy suit. She wrote to simply say "thank you." In a recent interview with the New Zealand Herald, Pearson rattles off style icons such as Jackie Kennedy, cites The F.E.C. Diaries (formerly Unabashedly Prep) as her principal style inspiration, and discloses that she makes her own bow ties. And if you can believe it gentlemen, it actually gets better.

Photographed by Babiche Martens for New Zealand Herald. — Photographed by Babiche Martens for *New Zealand Herald*.

The young kiwi works in a man's world—that of made-to-measure tailoring. Pearson is cutting her teeth at the contemporary Auckland tailoring house Crane Brothers, who not only cut suiting for men, but women as well. If Pearson was the last woman to ever fold inspiration gleaned from The F.E.C. Diaries into her personal style, we could quit blogging happy. And the admiration is mutual.

Read the rest of the interview as she goes into the finer details of her personal style and the nagging premonition she's the only preppy girl in the entire country.