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Designers Dish (On Everything BUT Fashion Week)!

By InStyle Editors Updated Aug 24, 2016 @ 10:22 am
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Vera Wang

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Credit: Courtesy of Vera Wang

SONG ON REPEAT This Is It by Michael Jackson

SECRET TALENT Dancing

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TV GUILTY PLEASURE The Real Housewives franchises

FAVORITE COLOR Gray

FAVORITE PICTURE Any dark Rothko!

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Credit: Courtesy of Vera Wang

STATEMENT ACCESSORY OF CHOICE A necklace-it's almost like a piece of clothing!

WORST FASHION TREND YOU TRIED The "Zoot" suit

BIGGEST STYLE INDULGENCE Fur, shoes, T-shirts and boots-I indulge myself in all kinds of incredible ones.

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Carolina Herrera

Carolina Herrera
Credit: Courtesy of Carolina Herrera

SECRET TALENT I have a photographic memory-I remember everything!

FAVORITE COLOR I don?t have one. I love all colors and mixing them together in interesting ways.

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TV GUILTY PLEASURES Medical shows like House M.D. and Grey's Anatomy

CURRENTLY READING Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother by William Shawcroft-I find it fascinating!

WORST FASHION TREND YOU TRIED I have never liked trends-everyone dressing the same reminds me of a uniform.

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SONG ON REPEAT I like Beyonce and my good ol' Beatles

BIGGEST STYLE INDULGENCE I never buy jewelry for myself, but for the first time I bought myself a Luz Camino flower brooch!

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Max Azria, CEO and Designer of BCBG, Herve Leger and Max Azria

Max Azria, CEO and Designer of BCBG, Herve Leger and Max Azria
Credit: Courtesy of Max Azria

SECRET TALENT I sing pretty well, but only my wife knows that.

SONG ON REPEAT Anything by the French artist Jehro.

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Credit: Courtesy of Fox; Courtesy of MTV; Courtesy of People

TV GUILTY PLEASURE My daughters are obsessed with True Blood, but I love 24. I saw it for the first time in Greece and end ed up watching the entire season back-to-back.

WORST FASHION TREND YOU TRIED My style in the early ?90s was just a gold chain.

IPHONE APP ADDICTION Ours! I?ve been known to play with it during meetings.

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Credit: Courtesy of Max Azria; Courtesy of Rolex

FAVORITE PICTURE A photo of my girls (left)

STYLE CRUSH It?s a tough choice between by wife Lubov and my youngest daughter Agnes.

BIGGEST STYLE INDULGENCE I?m a pretty simple guy, but I have two vices-watches and cashmere.

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Jason Wu

Jason Wu
Credit: Courtesy of Jason Wu

SECRET TALENT Baking great pies

SONG ON REPEAT Uprising by Muse (it played during my Spring 2010 runway show)

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Credit: Courtesy of Jason Wu; Courtesy of Everett Collection; Courtesy of Urban Spoon

FAVORITE PICTURE A 1956 Rene Grauau ad for Jaques Fath-it's hanging in my office.

WORST FASHION TREND YOU TRIED Anything acid-washed!

IPHONE APP ADDICTION I'm pretty hooked on Urbanspoon.

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STYLE CRUSH Diane Kruger

TV GUILTY PLEASURE Jersey Shore

LAST GOOGLED A recipe for chocolate soufflé

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Prabal Gurung

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Credit: Courtesy of Prabal

WORST FASHION TREND YOU TRIED Glittered conversational tees

SONG ON REPEAT Love Sick by Friendly Fires

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TV GUILTY PLEASURE Oprah, I watch it almost every night and weekends-reruns too!

BIGGEST STYLE INDULGENCE My personal trainer Ryan Hopkins and my white Margiela high tops.

STATEMENT ACCESSORY OF CHOICE A ring-subtle, chic and powerful!

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FAVORITE PICTURE My four-year-old niece Vaidehi, who thinks she's Michael Jackson

STYLE CRUSH Carey Mulligan, Zoe Saldana, Chloe Sevigny and Demi Moore

SECRET TALENT I can hold my own at a karaoke bar.

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Tory Burch

Tory Burch
Credit: Courtesy of Tory Burch

FAVORITE COLOR Orange-since I was a child.

STATEMENT ACCESSORY OF CHOICE Both necklaces and cuffs! Bold jewelry is my weakness.

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SECRET TALENT Round-off back hand spring

STYLE CRUSH Chrissie Hynde in the ?80s captures the spirit of our Fall 2010 collection.

WORST FASHION TREND YOU TRIED No one looks good in culottes. Note: I never tried this!

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BIGGEST STYLE INDULGENCE Vintage YSL

TV GUILTY PLEASURE CBS Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood and Gossip Girl

IPHONE APP ADDICTION Shazam-I?m obsessed with knowing the titles of obscure songs.

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Francisco Costa, Creative Director of Calvin Klein

Francisco Costa, Creative Director of Calvin Klein
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SECRET TALENT If I told you… it wouldn't be a secret.

SONG ON REPEAT Any song from Sigur Ros' new album

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Francisco Costa

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WORST FASHION TREND YOU TRIED Trying to emulate John Travolta's Saturday Night Fever look in the '70s.

FAVORITE COLOR Green

TV GUILTY PLEASURES I rarely ever watch TV.

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STYLE CRUSH American singer-songwriter and poet Patti Smith

CURRENTLY READING Just Kids by Patti Smith, which is about her relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe during the late ?60s and ?70s.

LAST GOOGLED Robert Mapplethorpe?s bodybuilder images

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Tommy Hilfiger

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SECRET TALENT I barbeque a great steak.

WORST FASHION TREND YOU TRIED Really baggy pants, which are not flattering on anyone!

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STYLE CRUSH Grace Kelly

IPHONE APP ADDICTION Our Tommy App-you can purchase directly from it!

BIGGEST STYLE INDULGENCE Louis Vuitton luggage

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TV GUILTY PLEASURE I could watch CNN and American Idol all day.

SONG ON REPEAT Any song by Kings of Leon

FAVORITE PICTURE A photo of my newborn, Sebastian

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