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Style and Fashion Guru Isaac Mizrahi sat down with Facto Magazine to discuss style, life and fashion. Here are a few excerpt’s from his interview.

FACTIO MAGAZINE: Tell us how you are redefining the new image of Liz Claiborne.
ISAAC MIZRAHI: I think I’m making it much fresher and younger. But I don’t want people to be afraid of the word young. It’s just snappy, it’s not granny is what it is. It’s ageless. It’s for this perfect 35-year-old woman in her prime and that could be a 60-year-old. She’s still to me 35 and that is what I’m inventing is this perpetual 35-year-old who never ages. That’s who I am, even though I’m not 35, I still dress as though I am because that is my spirit. The most important thing for women to remember is to wear things that they love.

FM: What is one of your favorite memories from your career?
IM: Well, one of my favorite memories is the first time I came to Chicago. I know that sounds like I’m just making that up. Maybe it’s suggested because here I am. But I have very glamorous memories of the first time I came to Chicago. I came here for the opening of a store and I stayed at that fabulous hotel at the time - the Mayfair Regent, which was right on Lake Shore Drive and it was the most fabulous place. They had this place where you’d go for breakfast called “Ciel Bleu” which I guess means Blue Sky or something. It was so glamorous, with the beautiful view of the lake (which I thought was an ocean, since it’s so huge) and we sold a lot of clothes here which is a great thing for a designer at 26, or however old I was, to come with a collection and actually sell a great deal of them. It does a lot for repeat visits and I will always come to Chicago happily. It’s one of my favorite places.

FM: What is one thing that people are surprised to know about you?
IM: One of the most surprising things is that I am really a slob. It takes a lot of effort for me to look this put together. If I had my way, I would sit on the couch all day and eat ice cream and go to pieces with my dogs because that is the ultimate luxury to sit and watch TV with ones dogs. I don’t get time enough to do that. My boyfriend thinks I’m a little nuts because that’s all I want to do on my time off and he’s bored with that. He wants to go to India or something, but I’m not doing that, it’s too late for India (laughs).

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