Nina Garcia

Fashion Director

Style, Current season accessories, finished hems, flying first class, The south of France, Prada mules and Manolo sandals, HGTV, taunting Anna Wintour, Chita - my Tibetian Mastiff, playing footsies with Michael Kors, Frette linens, Heidi Klum jewelry (I'm paid to say that), fall/winter shopping in Milan, Santino Rice lingerie (La Perla is *so* 2004!), Chinese checkers, Nutella & Chopard, Chopard, Chopard!

A Passage to India, Everything About Me Is Fake . . . And I'm Perfect by Janice Dickinson, The Sheltering Sky, Gone With the Wind, Bergdorf Blondes, anything by Marguerite Duras or D.H. Lawrence, The Karl Lagerfeld Diet (beach reading!), Elle Magazine.

The Blue Angel, Wings of Desire, Frida, 9 to 5, Jezebel, Pret-a-Porter, Moonstruck, The Bonfire of the Vanities, Mean Girls, Pollock.

The Gipsy Kings, Gloria Estefan, Goldfrapp, Karen White, ABBA, Julio & Enrique Iglesias, Anita Baker, Spanish Ricky Martin and Shakira, Queen, early 90's George Michael, Menudo, Whitney Houston & Madonna.

Project Runway, Blow Out, Work Out, Surprise by Design.

I expect fantastic. I don't want to see boring. I don't want to see ugly. WHY?! You know, why? Why do I have to see ugly? We are in fashion! I have no interest in being bored here. I want to be wowed.

If you are going to give me a hard time, I'm going to give you a hard time right back.

I think I've met everybody.