She came to New York three years ago to be head designer at Diane Von Furstenberg and at the same time started her own collection. Malandrino brings her French fashion sensibility to America with her fun, sexy, very wearable clothes. Now she's going global with a store in Europe and plans for one in Japan. We met up for a girl chat about fashion, celeb clients, and much more. French people never seem to like any place other than France.
French people are a little blase.
I never had this feeling when I was just visiting. I don't think it makes sense to say there's a French designer or an American designer anymore. When you're a designer you're a part of the planet. You're translating it in style. And if you don't have this vision of this very big planet and sometimes very small people living together, you cannot translate right.