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• Fashion Week: Tracy Reese Uses Fashion To Fight Smoking 

It may not be the most chic habit, but outside the tents at Fall Fashion Week, smoking still seems to be one of the most dominant trends. That's why in addition to her spring fashion collection, designer Tracy Reese is looking to make a statement in other areas. For this year's Fall Fashion Week she's teamed up with the anti-smoking group, American Legacy to encourage more people in the industry to stop using cigarettes as one of their top accessories.

“You don't need to smoke, especially in the fashion industry,” says Reese. “It's so prevalent among models, designers, students – it's just everywhere. I think people think they’re cool or they are filling those empty spaces with a cigarette and it's not cool if you're killing yourself and you're making second-hand smoke for others. And I just think there's a better way to express yourself and to really be beautiful than picking up a cigarette.”

“In this industry, which is such a wonderful part of New York, the whole glamour fashion industry too many times people use the cigarette as a symbol of glamour and high style and fashion and Tracey and the Legacy Foundation is trying to dissuade people from doing that,” says American Legacy Foundation executive vice president Bernadette Toomey.

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