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you have to be relevant.
But also you have to be true to yourself.
' Kors has spent his career thinking about what his customers might need next, and he's still itching to find out.
'I've seen every size of woman in her knickers...
and less! ' says Kors, whose passion for a trunk show is well documented.
'And women are very vocal.
' But clearly, he listens.
Customers pull him up on classic pieces that he dropped from collections; one Palm Springs client asked why he wasn't making low-heel shoes.
Kors went back from that particular trunk show and set his team to designing a workable but elegant heel.
'Our women are very smart, but you know, she's just going by Louis Vuitton Galliera pm missing in her closet.
' This willingness to listen has won Kors legions of dedicated fans that span decades, careers and locations, from his celebrity tally ('We go from Blake Lively to Barbara Walters, from J-Lo to Mrs Obama, ' he says) to the working women who rely on Kors for reliable, beautifully made classics, to the most dedicated fashion consumers.
It's not surprising that while the recession choked luxury fashion last year, Kors had his best business year ever.
When Kors collected a Council of Fashion Designers of America Lifetime Achievement Award last summer, Anna Wintour told the tale of Mouna Ayoub, the voracious couture shopper who encountered Kors at a party in Saint-Tropez and praised his 76-ply cashmere louis vuitton replica handbags sable coat.
'Michael, ' she said, 'you are my Gap.
' It's easy to imagine him as a precocious only child growing up in Long Island with his mother Joan (who attends his catwalk shows) and extended family, some of whom worked in the city's garment district.
Lie would feverishly sketch fabulous frocks and devour Women's Wear Daily, which he bought on his way to school.
Aged five, he tweaked his mother's wedding dress when she married his stepfather, Bill Kors.
His dedication to his customers stems from the start of his career, when he dropped out of fashion school to become a sales boy at Lothar's on 57th Street, where Barbra Streisand and Diana Ross shopped.
Within months, he louis vuitton damier speedy designing the store's own label, art-directing the windows and pretty much running the show.
At 21, he launched his own label at Bergdorf Goodman.
Since then, Kors has rarely veered from producing his signature urban luxe, often themed to his clients' locales: Palm Beach, Aspen, Capri.
But he's never one to rest on his laurels.
'I think you have to stay curious and interested in what's new, ' he says.
'Never think you know it all, because fashion is a living, moving target.
' Currently, he's thinking about the future of fashion.
'Finding a way to appreciate nature without giving up a hectic life - I think thenext decade will be about that.
't'his calm approach fuelled S/S 1 1's.



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