Fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi

Regular readers know I’m a big fan of Isaac Mizrahi.

If you are too, here’s a Q&A with Isaac from the Atlanta Journal Constitution.  He talks about his fall collection, his upcoming book and the style question most asked by women.

Designer Isaac Mizrahi, host of "The Fashion Show"

Did you watch the first episode of “The Fashion Show,” a new fashion reality show? It’s on Bravo and stars designer Isaac Mizrahi, Fern Mallis, who is responsible for Fashion Week in New York and other cities, and singer Kelly Rowland.  Click here and learn what the three have to say about the new series, which airs on Thursdays. If you missed it, don’t fret. You can catch replays throughout the week.

Designer Isaac Mizrahi

Designer Isaac Mizrahi, Target’s one-time boy wonder and now the guy everyone hopes will breathe new life into Liz Claiborne, is going to do a stint on the radio.  He’ll host  Isaac Mizrahi: Tell Me Everything, an exclusive five-week series of live call-in shows on Martha Stewart Living Radio.

The radio show will kick from 6 to 7 p.m. April 6 through May 14, exclusively on Martha Stewart Living Radio, SIRIUS channel 112 and XM channel 157 as part of “The Best of SIRIUS” package. Mizrahi will host the show from SIRIUS XM Radio’s studios in New York City.  SIRIUS XM listeners are encouraged to call in and ask him questions during the live broadcasts at (866) 675-6675. Mizrahi will help readers embrace their personal style and solve fashion dilemmas.

Fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi has written a book that he hopes will allow women to bring out their own fashion inspiration. Fashion and style are about personal inspiration, whatever gets you motivated every single day, he said.

“How to Have Style” ($30) focuses on 12 real women facing real wardrobe issues.  As the women find their own style, Mizrahi helps them solve problems — tight budget, full figure, petite figure, lack of time — and look at their closet differently. 

For a video and interview with Mizrahi, click here.

This just landed in my in box.

Lesley Jane Seymour, editor in chief of More magazine, interviewed Issac Mizrahi, fashion designer and creative director for Liz Claiborne, at Monday’s More magazine Reinvention Convention. Their Q&A focused on age appropriate fashion and how 40+ women can pack a punch into their wardrobe.

Here’s an exerpt from the conversation:

On Sarah Palin’s look — and why she should get rid of her $35,000 personal tanning machine: “Oh she looks 1,000 doesn’t she? All that makeup and tan and the hair up. Very 90’s and 80’s to me.”

On the worst body mistake a woman can make after 40: “Working out too much [after 40]  is rough. I call it beef jerky [arms]. Like when the skin starts clinging to the bones.”

Avoiding sales – at all costs!: “Never buy sales clothes, don’t go to Century 21. It’s the most depressing place on earth. I think it makes everyone hate clothes. It’s poorly lit and it has all this merchandise that nobody else wants. So why do you want it? Cause it’s cheap – and it just collects dust in your closet!”

The hair coloring slippery-slope: “So I’ve been coloring my hair since I was 25 years old… Now I’m going gray, so I think I might stop coloring. But then if I stopped coloring my hair, then I’d really have to be thin. And now I’m not exactly the thinnest. But then you look like a fat queen who colors her hair anyway.”

Simplest advice on skirts and women over 40: “Err on the side of shorter [skirts]. Unless you have hideous legs!”

How do you know you’re dressing too young?: “People start looking at you funny. It’s like they smell something bad…”

Charmingly wrong: “In Sex and the City, the reason [Carrie] is considered so stylish is because she goes full-force with the mistake. Like when you see Sarah Jessica Parker’s roots down to here, you know she means that, it’s not like she can’t afford to get her roots done. She has a Garnier Nutrisse contract for God’s sake.”