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"Who better to ask for some warm-weather fashion advice than the queen of sun-kissed California cool, Lauren Conrad? Her latest collection for Kohl&amp;#x27;s has just hit stores, and she&amp;#x27;s sharing her Dos and Don&amp;#x27;ts for getting dressed this spring with Slaves to Fashion! We rang Lauren up this morning to talk about designing her own line for Kohl&amp;#x27;s, her latest splurge, and the Dos and Don&amp;#x27;ts of spring&amp;#x27;s biggest trends. Lauren models a one shoulder dress from her spring collection, $60 STF: So, what&amp;#x27;s life like post-Hills? Is it really different doing the designer thing than it was doing the TV thing? LC: Well, I get to make my own schedule now, and that&amp;#x27;s nice. When you&amp;#x27;re filming and working on a TV series, you kind of have to compromise everything you do, and now I&amp;#x27;m able to fully commit to everything I do, including my line for Kohl&amp;#x27;s. STF: I noticed that you&amp;#x27;re the model in all of your lookbook shots for the new spring collection. How important is it to you to actually wear the clothes you design? LC: I think if you&amp;#x27;re not willing to wear your own clothes, you&amp;#x27;re doing something wrong. With this line, it was kind of meant to be about my style and pieces I want to walk into a store and want to buy. If you&amp;#x27;re not wearing your own line, you&amp;#x27;re taking all the fun out of it. I wanted to just fill up my own closet with stuff I love! Motor jacket, $72, and lace applique skirt, $44 STF: Do you have a favorite piece from this collection? If a girl could only splurge on one thing this spring, what should it be? LC: I love blazers. We have one in every collection, and we usually update it and tweak it a little bit. In this specific collection I also really love the biker jacket we did. It was the most requested item from my friends! STF: Speaking of splurges, what was your latest one? LC: Hmm...it&amp;#x27;s probably shoes. It&amp;#x27;s always shoes! I just got a pair of brown Louboutins but it was just because I had this Miu Miu pair last season that I wore literally every other day, so I needed something new--those were kind of an update to those everyday shoes I love. Sign up for Glamour.com&amp;amp;#8217;s Style Tips of the Week and Beauty Tip of the Day newsletters! Cascading ruffle cami, $30, and elastic ruffle miniskirt, $44 STF: You know since I&amp;#x27;m from Glamour, I&amp;#x27;ve gotta talk Dos and Don&amp;#x27;ts. I&amp;#x27;m going to name a few hot spring trends, and you tell me whether they&amp;#x27;re a Do or a Don&amp;#x27;t! Let&amp;#x27;s start with knee socks. LC: Ooh. I love them in an editorial look. When I think knee socks I always go to that Sex and the City scene where Carrie wore them with a heel, which looked amazing but I&amp;#x27;ve tried to do it and I cant. I think if it peeks out of a tall boot, like a riding boot, it works, but generally it&amp;#x27;s hard to pull off. STF: How about the lingerie-inspired trend? LC: That&amp;#x27;s a Do! I love that trend. It&amp;#x27;s about finding the lingerie inspired pieces, rather than wearing actually lingerie. And it&amp;#x27;s about layering--you want one piece in there, whether it&amp;#x27;s a cami or just some small lace detail on another piece. You don&amp;#x27;t want to show too much, but I think it&amp;#x27;s so feminine. STF: Double denim? AKA the &amp;quot;Texas Tuxedo&amp;quot;? LC: Don&amp;#x27;t. I can&amp;#x27;t do denim on denim. There are usually one or two trends a season I just don&amp;#x27;t get and this one of them. It&amp;#x27;s a hard look to class up. Belted tiered ruffle dress, $60 STF: How about watercolor prints? A Do or a Don&amp;#x27;t? LC: DO! I love watercolor prints. I think they&amp;#x27;re very romantic and kind of timeless. I almost did too much of it with this collection. When we were shopping for prints with Kohl&amp;#x27;s everything I picked was watercolor and floral. They&amp;#x27;re very in because of the whole Alice in Wonderland thing. STF: And I have to ask, because they&amp;#x27;re everywhere this season...hot pants! LC: Um...I love them in editorial. YSL just did one that looks fabulous on a model but I don&amp;#x27;t think they&amp;#x27;re something you can wear every day. I&amp;#x27;d say try it as a bathing suit bottom instead. You can&amp;#x27;t wear them to the club, because you&amp;#x27;re going to look like one of the dancers, but they could look cute on the beach! Shop the LC Lauren Conrad for Kohl&amp;#x27;s collection now at kohls.com...then check out some amazing hair ideas from the former Hills star! More Ways to Get Glamour You could win $50,000 just for registering or logging in to Glamour.com! Add Glamour to your iGoogle homepage Follow Slaves to Fashion on Twitter! Photos: courtesy of Kohl&amp;#x27;s"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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