Noa Polansky's designs are the personification of classic looks for the modern girl.

During the designer's childhood, on weekend afternoons, she would spend in front of the television, absorbing a once, larger-than-life images of such classic movie divas as Audrey Hepburn, Cyd Charisse, Grace Kelly, and Mitzi Gaynor, to name a few.

"They were women who used to take the time to look pulled together, to look beautiful and elegant," Polansky Say's.

But growing up in a small, Sheltered, European community that was home to only about 300 families, Polansky didn't have much of an outlet in which to express the silver screen and Technicolor influence.

Then when she was 12, Polansky's family moved to the United States. That's when her mother purchased the young, impressionable Noa her first "Seventeen" Magazine, and opened her world to glossy pages of eye-catching layouts, fresh faces and feminine poses.

"I was in awe, and this was great, it filled my soul," Polansky says, but more importantly, she spied a direction in which she could bring her classic- movie -screen inspiration s to life.

Today, Noa Polansky is a God-send for the city girl who wants to reflect a sense of sophistication, in a sexy, sporty look. "It's very urban," Polansky says of her clothes. "It's very up town and very classic, but always sexy."

But don't be fooled, for Polansky it was not unusual to go into design. As she recalls hearing from her mother that her great-grandfather was a tailor and her great-grandmother was the head seamstress for the Queen of Romania.  

Noa Polansky has also been working as a freelance designer for the last six years.  She has freelanced for companies such as Victoria's Secret, Calvin Klein, Donna Karan, Kenneth Cole, and Talbots.