Michael Kors offers tips on how to be glamorous

  There are not many things that I regret. But if I were desperate, I must say, it's a shame that I have

never invested in Michael Kors: I met the designer superstar in the mid-80s when he was a young artist, and

I knew from the beginning -go, he was destined for greatness. He had an accent, a clarity of vision and an

amazing understanding of how women want to dress up. When Kors has become a household brand and the company

went public in late 2011, the shares have gone through the roof. It was a record IPO, which set a new

standard, and now Forbes predicted that Kors soon become the next billionaire fashion.

Kors the imagination of the world with the concept of affordable luxury, and today, Digital Luxury Group, a

market intelligence organization, the label is the most coveted American brand of the online world.

But it is so much more than just a successful fashion: This is a good guy and a philanthropist to start

compassion, recently launched a campaign called Halle Berry stopwatch hunger, the agent has to sell will

increase by showing a version of the bestselling Kors Runway. For each clock sold the 100 series will be

made available with meals for 100 children through the World Food Programme of the United Nations.

I spoke recently brought age appropriate Michael Kors at Holt Renfrew on Bloor St. W., where we dressing to

glamor, and influence.

Q: Many women are obsessed with dressing age appropriate. The lines are blurred and there are so many it is

between the generations as your label. She always told me that you dress for your body and mind, it is not

appropriate to the age.

A: I think the simple truth is that you be at least 16 years, and if you hate your knees, do not wear a

short skirt, although each track shows in the world, micro-mini dresses and shorts. And if you are 70 and

you have an amazing pair of legs, show them! I design for women and girls who know. She has a good degree of

confidence. She is interested in fashion. You want to know what happened. But first and foremost, she knows

that her own person. On the other hand, I must say that I miss seeing people with gray hair. I think gray

hair is great. In our thirst of youth, we walked away from the idea that you can be fabulous for all ages

Q: You've obviously helped free us from this kind of philosophy, and also the idea of ​​glamor accessible. If

glamor has become a driving force with you?

A: When I was a kid growing up, I had all these women, the different points of style. My mother was and

still is a matter of simplicity: It is casual discreet. My grandmother was at the top. And sister-in-law of

my mother - my father's sister - was full of hippie chick. I think I have to understand this convergence,

and all these women now, because these symbols.

But when it comes to me, I want relaxed and comfortable. Glamour used to separate slightly. Were you or were

you practicing glamor. But when I think, I mean, I'm in a crocodile shoe with a pair of sweatpants. Or am I

the most expensive place to sleep on the beach sweater. There is such a thing as glamorous life. The old-

fashioned idea of ​​glamor is that it was on such a pedestal.

For me, glamor is a strange convergence of American and European practice enjoyment. I remember watching

women blown up in Paris do not really give when a character was something that practice. It's like,

"Alright, I buy a white winter coat. I do not care if concerned someone projections I will." New Yorkers

are, "Oh, I can not wear the white coat he is dirty .." Disposable luxury, I think that is a bit more

European and I think the kind of pragmatic practice in North America.

Q: What do you hate about fashion these days? On the system, and how to put it out there?

A: I think the similarity is a killer style. I see many young artists who do not really have their own

imprint their own vocabulary. You just go with the zeitgeist of what happens. Each designer must represent

something. And must evolve.

Q: The time you was recently one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Success feel like inside?

A: If I put on a fashion show, it can be fabulous, but I do not know if work clothes until I actually what I

designed are on the streets, and more importantly, it applies, it is not even worn. Thus, success feels like

a validation that you made the right decisions in life, you have hit the right creative decisions. When I

met you, my idea came from "strangers" here in Toronto. We do not believe that there are Michael Kors

stores, Kuala Lumpur and Dubai and Sydney and Rio de Janeiro.

We went to the part of Bette Midler, I'll yesterday to eat last week and I just grew away from his talent,

energy blown, I know it well and have as a friend. When we went backstage to say hello, there's Sherry

Lansing, the first woman to run a studio, someone I've known for 25 years. And there's Meryl Streep

backstage, and I can not imagine anyone more than just reinventing. And Candice Bergen, this is just humor,

intelligence, beauty and style for me. I looked around the room for women and I thought. "I know each of you

and I clothed you all and I know that your girl and I dressed up your daughters" I see all generations. This

is an incredible feeling. This is what success feels like.