PB: If we went into your closet, what would we find? What would there be the most of? Organized? Messy?
John: Pretty organized. For my clothes, there is like a rolling rack in an extra room. I am just trying to organize it. But here in NYC, space is limited. The hardest thing is the bags, I have so many bags to store.
PB: How many bags do you have at home?
John: Probably about 20 or 25 that I use. I need to live in my bags because I want to be able to talk about them in the store and with other people.
Richard: I usually stick with one bag for a while and then change it.
PB: Well, that is just about all we have. We wanted to touch base and get a chance to see what’s new.
John: Everything is new for the upcoming collections. For this season, we just went kind of crazy with new colors and silhouette. Now we are working on Fall and just put a meeting together for Resort. Shoes, belts, gloves, everything is going to be wonderful. I love designing for Fall.
PB: Do you ever feel a hint of sadness when you have to retire one seasonal collection?
Richard: Believe it or not, you are pretty much over it and ready to move on once a collection is finished.
John: It is never finished, finished until it is packed and sent to stores.
Richard: There is such a short window of time where you present a collection and get to appreciate it. It is like 2 days later you have to move on to the next collection and focus on that collection. You have to kind of step back and think about which collection is in the stores now and which collection you are working on.
