aroline Childers doesn't know much about le Net, but she does know la mode--style. When Caroline founded Fashion Internet, an online fashion magazine, last summer, she didn't even own a computer.

What Caroline does posess is a keen sense of style. "I am a fashion expert," she says. "That is what I do best; that is what is most important: la mode. La mode has no frontiers."

Caroline hopes her Web-based magazine can expand fashion frontiers by taking new designers off the runway and onto the Net. "The Internet look will be created by American designers," says Caroline, who has been a buyer for Pierre Cardin and published a fashion industry guidebook. "You can talk to designers, which is a new dimension. It's a dialogue between the people, the manufacturer, the designer, the store."