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"    Jan Arnold and Jen Kao; Photo: Courtesy of CND   ELLE.com spotted CND founder and creative director Jan Arnold backstage at Behnaz Sarafpour, and picked her brain on beauty, designers, and fitness. In charge of some of the runway&amp;#039;s most innovative nail looks, the platinum Arnold knows a thing or two about navigating Fashion Week. ELLE: You&amp;#039;re backstage at CND&amp;#039;s shows and then sit front-of-house, too. That spans a lot of time. Jan Arnold: Usually, for one show I can be there for two to three hours. And every night I go home, and I write my blog. It&amp;#039;s really talking about nails in the context of fashion. I never talk just about nails, because I view it as a total thing. It&amp;#039;s my spin on things from the nail perspective.   ELLE: When you&amp;#039;re at a show can you actually focus on the clothes, or are you just concentrating on the models&amp;#039; fingers? J.A.: Well, of course I have to make sure everything looks perfect. Once I&amp;#039;m confident about that, I can enjoy the total story. ELLE: Is there a show you&amp;#039;re most excited about? J.A.: I&amp;#039;m really excited about Rodarte. It&amp;#039;s our first time working with them, and they&amp;#039;re California-based like us, so we just ran up the freeway [for meetings]. We sat with the sisters and saw their perspective and designed a nail that is so in line with who they are. They&amp;#039;re really, really excited about it and just down-to-earth, great people. ELLE: How do you keep your energy up for Fashion Week? J.A.: I run every day. In between shows I dash to my hotel, and I run three miles. Then I take a quick, hot bath, and I&amp;#039;m good to go.  ELLE: Running in New York must be so different than running in California! J.A.: I love Central Park, so I try to run there, but in a pinch I go on the treadmill. Even if my feet are really hurting, if I&amp;#039;m on a treadmill or running outside, it&amp;#039;s like a foot massage because you&amp;#039;re out of the heels and on something cushy. For me, it&amp;#039;s the key. And drinking water. You have to drink a ton of water. See all the Spring 2013 Ready-to-Wear collections. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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