Alice + Olivia designer Stacey Bendet is busy prepping for Fashion Week, which starts Sept. 6. “My husband [Eric Eisner] is like, ‘I don’t understand why we can’t go away for August,’ and I’m like, ‘because it’s the worst month of my life,’ ” she joked to us. Bendet, whose brand is expanding into Japan and the UK, chose American Dream as the theme of her next collection. “I think sometimes people get so caught up in hating things,” she said. “You forget all the incredible things that are coming out of this country.”