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"   Cynthia Rowley&amp;#039;s collections always speak to a very certain type of girl. She&amp;#039;s fun. She&amp;#039;s athletic. She likes to go on adventures and try new things. One season she may be a surfer, another she may be going to the most glamorous parties, but whatever it is, she&amp;#039;s always on the cusp of something great. ELLE.com got a first look at Cynthia Rowley&amp;#039;s amazing show space (SPOILER ALERT: There was a female knife thrower!) in the basement of the Paramount Hotel in midtown Manhattan and sat down with the designer to talk about her collection, effortless glamour, and the Internet. Tell me about this collection. I see these muted rainbows\u2014they&amp;#039;re amazing. We&amp;#039;re calling them moonbows, because it sort of has this patina, and there is a real thing that there can be a rainbow at night, and it&amp;#039;s called a moonbow. When I found this space, months ago, it sort of reminded me of that\u2014the happiness of a rainbow, but totally dark and mysterious and romantic. I tried to really use that as part of the inspiration. Related: How to Get the Surfer-Chic Pink Pouts at Cynthia Rowley  So the collection itself was in part inspired by this space? I think so. And then I was thinking about ways that you have to stress test your own aesthetic, and force yourself to be counter intuitive about what you do. I love making dresses, so this collection I wanted it to be very sportswear driven. You just have to challenge yourself in whatever direction or feeling that you want to go in. What are some of your favorite pieces? These sweaters that are sort of like puzzle pieces that all fit together. It&amp;#039;s a crew neck, and then it has a little dickie on it. But you can wear it out or in\u2014those are the kind of sportswear-inspired pieces that I wanted to create that aren&amp;#039;t just the cute little dresses Were you designing with a specific girl in mind? I like the idea that this girl is a professional knife-thrower. It just seems so crazy to me. I always like that sort of tomboy aesthetic. Related: Cynthia Rowley&amp;#039;s Hidden Talent  You have two daughters. Do you design with them in mind? They&amp;#039;re too little. The older one, who&amp;#039;s 14, she wears a t-shirt with Mick Jagger or Dash Snow and jeans every day. She&amp;#039;s so anti-fashion. She could not care less. I&amp;#039;m like, &amp;quot;Please, do you want to go shopping, can I buy you some stuff?&amp;quot; and she&amp;#039;s like &amp;quot;No, I&amp;#039;m good.&amp;quot; She really doesn&amp;#039;t care I guess. But they both like to draw. The little one designs, draws little things with a juice box pocket on it. Do you hate fashion week? I literally slept four hours last night. But I think it&amp;#039;s really exciting, I think it&amp;#039;s really fun. It&amp;#039;s not as much fun for designers. What&amp;#039;s good is that we&amp;#039;re kind of done with the collection, so I can kind of enjoy it more. It&amp;#039;s like a visual feast. You see the space you see the clothes, you celebrate, you socialize, there are photo ops everywhere you look. It&amp;#039;s a lot. Especially with the Internet and social media. Do you use the Internet a lot? Yeah. I love it. I think that each season we, as an industry, evolve more and more in such a great way, and I&amp;#039;m really excited about it. We&amp;#039;re able to put fashion into the hands of the consumer and eyes of the consumer, and I just think that there&amp;#039;s no filter anymore, you just put it out there. There&amp;#039;s an instant commentary. I think it&amp;#039;s so interesting. Photo: Getty Images "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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