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"  Photo: Courtesy of Lisa Salzer It may have been a shock for the rest of us to hear that J.Crew Group CEO Mickey Drexler would be appearing on Breaking Bad, but jewelry designer Lisa Salzer was in on the secret. Salzer\u2014whose latest Lulu Frost x J.Crew collection launches September 15\u2014recalls telling Drexler, &amp;quot;You&amp;#039;re like Heisenberg, man, you&amp;#039;re so cool,&amp;quot; at which point he confided his plans to make a cameo on his favorite TV show.  Salzer, too, has big things on the horizon. In addition to the J.Crew collaboration, dubbed Harvest Moon, the New Yorker will be showcasing her spring 2014 line during New York Fashion Week. The &amp;quot;Neon Baroque&amp;quot; presentation will feature a punky twist on Sofia Coppola&amp;#039;s Marie Antoinette, with models pairing creepers with ballet tutus. And the baubles? &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s a really cool mash-up of the traditional\u2014which is baroque\u2014and the new\u2014which is neon,&amp;quot; she told us. &amp;quot;Of course we&amp;#039;ve gone into neon tones, and we&amp;#039;re hand-painting this beautiful glass jewelry that we&amp;#039;re creating in the studio in bright neon colors. But it&amp;#039;s more about a philosophy of having the new and the old together. I was inspired by a lot of Victorian and Deco elements, but also some plastics and interesting neon resins that combine to make this new look.&amp;quot; Smitten, yet? Salzer describes the Lulu Frost customer as &amp;quot;intelligent, individual, and confident,&amp;quot; but she may as well be talking about herself. Get to know the platinum-cropped designer as she dishes on Mindy Kaling, hitting the snooze button, and family heirlooms in this edition of Ten Questions.  What is your favorite smell?  My favorite smell is a combination of white flowers. I love Orange Blossom, the Jo Malone scent. I&amp;#039;ve been wearing [white flowers] a long time and they remind me of good times. I think the ritual of putting on a perfume is something I often do before going out to a fun party or an evening out with my boyfriend. White-flower scents just make me feel like a festivity is on the way. What do you consider to be the epitome of happiness?  Being healthy and having the people that you love also be healthy. How do you define luxury? I define luxury by having freedom\u2014free time, freedom to choose your destiny. That&amp;#039;s a huge luxury in my life. Working on my own and running Lulu Frost gives me the luxury to determine my schedule and wake up late if I want to. Freedom is a huge luxury, but not everyone always has that. What is the last dream you remember?  I have many, many dreams concerning water. I don&amp;#039;t know why; I hear it&amp;#039;s related to sexuality. I always have these weird dreams about being on a ship or a boat, or various travels over huge bodies of water. What&amp;#039;s your favorite childhood memory?  I have this wonderful memory of playing in these forsythia bushes. I grew up in Long Island, and we had huge amounts of bright yellow forsythia bushes. I would carve little tunnels and nooks into them and pretend that I lived within them and just while away hours.  What&amp;#039;s the last book you read and loved?  I read and absolutely loved Mindy Kaling&amp;#039;s book, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns). She actually went to Dartmouth with me, and I knew her a little bit\u2014she&amp;#039;s a little bit older than me\u2014and then she became a Lulu fan. I just think she&amp;#039;s brilliant and hilarious. It&amp;#039;s a liability because you will laugh out loud. I was hiding behind the book when I read it on the plane because I was laughing so loud I was crying. Describe your home&amp;#039;s aesthetic.  My home is a mix of mid-century modern furniture, which I started getting really into. So it has clean lines and a bit of an industrial background, but it&amp;#039;s very cozy, as well. I like to have warm touches of great blankets and beautiful textures and fabrics. It&amp;#039;s kind of a mix between fixtures that are really clean and warm, upholstered pieces and textiles that invite hanging out. My boyfriend and I live together and we love to have people over, so it&amp;#039;s important that it&amp;#039;s warm and inviting and fun. What are your vices?  I love coffee. I definitely have an iced latte every day. Maybe sleeping too much? I love to sleep, and I could definitely spend 12 hours on a weekend sleeping. It&amp;#039;s a joyful way for me to spend time, but maybe I&amp;#039;m wasting my day. Other than that, I don&amp;#039;t really have an addictive personality. There aren&amp;#039;t many crazy vices in my life. Describe yourself in five words or less.  Caring, creative, emotional, passionate, generous. What possession will you never throw away?  I have this amazing locket that I inherited from my dad. It&amp;#039;s a picture of his grandfather and grandmother on either side. It&amp;#039;s a beautiful gold locket. I put it on a necklace, and I wear it often. Just having a piece of my family history live on. I&amp;#039;ve never met those people, but they&amp;#039;re responsible for me being here, so I&amp;#039;ll never throw that away. I treasure it. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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