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"   Photo: Raquel Allegra  Ever wonder what a designer does all day? We asked Raquel Allegra what it&amp;#039;s like coming back to the office\u2014and back to reality\u2014after her recent trip to Paris. (P.S. She&amp;#039;s just launched ecommerce!)  9:00AM Just back from Paris after two incredible weeks! I&amp;#039;m excited to see everything that was done for the summer collection while I was away. New fabrics have arrived for fall 2012. In the office, we start cutting swatches and post to boards. I love this part! 10:00AM Give the new gauze fabric to Jaime to get started on first samples. All the fabrics feel so dreamy! 11:00AM My dear friend and stylist Djuna Bel visits the studio to check out our summer collection and pull some pieces for an ELLE photo shoot tomorrow. 11:30AM I get a call from my fianc\u00E9, who&amp;#039;s in NYC producing Lady Gaga&amp;#039;s new video! 1:00pM  Urth Caf\u00E9 for lunch\u2014but still working! The team finishes our summer mood boards while eating and Anton sketches new ideas I have for the crinkle fabric.   Photo: Raquel Allegra  1:30PM Go over new tie-dye experiments with the team and schedule some time tomorrow to meet with the artists who are hand-tie-dying and finalize details. 3:00PM It&amp;#039;s fitting time with our production manager, which means the final hours we&amp;#039;ll spend on spring before production actually starts\u2014our last chance to make it perfect! In between try-ons, I skip-out for a quick walk with my dogs, `lil Fini and Brown.   Photo: Raquel Allegra  5:00PM In the middle of more fittings, I pow-wow with my business partner about selling the spring collection and a picture of Natasha Poly wearing one of my tees during Paris fashion week pops up\u2014so hot! 6:00PM Phone call with our photographer about the summer photo shoot which is now just two weeks away. I start styling the pieces that are ready and decide we need more color so I send an email to dye-house and ask them to please hurry! 7:00PM It&amp;#039;s late and I&amp;#039;m too tired to even leave. Hand-binding the spring lookbook and dreaming about Paris. I post the video I took at Versailles on Tumblr and go home\u2014it&amp;#039;s good to be back. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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