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"They are very strong - you know French women and the Resistance! The best way to fight would be to do a beautiful collection."

Christian Lacroix on his concern for the brand's seamstresses who may find themselves out of work if the ailing couture house isn't soon rescued. Lacroix has rebuffed offers from clients to buy the brand and save the house out of concern for his talented team.

"It's a dream - to bring your creative force to a different brand. I love Halston. We share a very similar frame of simplicity and elegance as well as the technical approach. I've been an admirer for a long time."

Newly appointed creative director of the House of Halston Marios Schwab waxes nostalgic on the brand he is about to reinvigorate...again. We keep waiting for Halston to get back off the ground again for real.

"I have always been a fan of designer partnerships with mass retailers. I think it is a great way to bring fashion to everyone. It is an exciting challenge to try and interpret my aesthetic into a mass-produced product with a specific international source as the focus."

Anna Sui, on her new diffusion line for Target, in an interview with WWD.

Why, Anna, why? This has got to be something like the 7th Horseman (or Horsewoman) of the fashiopolypse. The camel's back has to break eventually...

"Considering it's talent per capita, Israel could have been one of the world's design powerhouses by now. But the country's best and brightest don't tend to stick around too long"- V MAN, Spring 2009

“I feel like the elephant in the room”- Dasha Zhukova, on the industry's reaction to her recent appointment as editor-in-chief of Katie-Grand-a-thon POP.

"I think Alaia is especially important now because fashion is in transition and he's really about the roots of design in the body."- Glenn O'Brien, Editoral Director for Interview Magazine, on Azzedina Alaia.

Azzedine Alaia truly is the last great couturier.

"There are movie stars you see in film or characters in a novel that are an idealized version of what we dream life to be about, and rarely is this great expectation met...But Daphne is the exception: She is the embodiment of the ideal- beautiful, chic, fiercely intelligent, and kind"- Stephen Klein on Daphne Guinness, W Magazine

Photo from VOGUE, UK

"My life didn't please me, so I created my life."
-Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel

Post by Amanda LaMela

"With the research skills and portfolios these kids have, there will always be people who want them. In fact, I know there are already. I just can't say who."- Louise Wilson, Professor and Mentor to MA Students at Central Saint Martin's, on the fears of graduating into today's delightfully energetic and totally unperilous job market (she isn't worried...neither are her students I'm sure).

The Central Saint Martin's show is always a sight to behold, and you can expect a full report so, so, so soon here on District L. I hate to make you go without, but be brave and hold tight. We can get through this together.

"I haven't been to Egypt, but it's one place I've always wanted to go," said Siriano. "So it was my interpretation of what I feel like it should be, or my fantasy of what I think it is...I wanted the collection to be powerful, but I still wanted it to be soft and still feminine, and still wearable."

Christian Siriano, on the inspiration for his Fall 2009 Collection, Fashion Wire Daily

Yes, I know NY Fashion Week has come and gone (sadly) but Christian Siriano has been doing a fantastic job of staying in the public eye, unlike most of the other Project Runway winners (Chloe Dao? What ever happened to her?). He's definitely the most successful-unlike Season 4 winner Jeffrey Sebelia and the live-action Bratz movie costume gig he scored.

Run, little one, run.