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"    Photo: Rebecca Black   &amp;quot;Like any project I work on, you have no idea if it&amp;#039;s going to be a hit. You make what you think is a good show, and you hope that it resonates with the audience,&amp;quot; says Girls costume designer Jenn Rogien. If you&amp;#039;re waiting with bated breath for this Sunday&amp;#039;s new episode, you know it certainly has. &amp;quot;Girls is such a character-driven show,&amp;quot; continues Rogien, &amp;quot;And in season two, I&amp;#039;m really focused on developing [the main characters&amp;#039;] personalities,&amp;quot; she says. But for Rogien, it&amp;#039;s all about the collaborative nature with the show&amp;#039;s quadruple threat: writer, star, producer, and director Lena Dunham.&amp;quot;Lena has such an incredible imagination, and she knows these girls better than anyone else in the world because she writes them. Lena is never short of insight.&amp;quot;   Rogien is also the style and fit expert for Aerie (American Eagle&amp;#039;s intimates line), and she&amp;#039;s looking to mix things up with the brand. &amp;quot;What I&amp;#039;m trying to do is help get the word out there that underwear is a part of your wardrobe and not an afterthought,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s all about the story I want to tell.&amp;quot; While we&amp;#039;re anxiously waiting for Sunday&amp;#039;s episode, Rogien answers our famous Ten Questions. 1. What is your favorite smell? &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s a tie between fresh cut grass and a horse barn. It&amp;#039;s weird, I know. I grew up as a horse lover but never owned horses, so I&amp;#039;ve always loved the smell. I find the smell warm and comforting. It&amp;#039;s a very romantic smell for me, probably because I&amp;#039;ve never had the responsibility of owning horses.&amp;quot; 2. What do you consider to be the epitome of happiness? &amp;quot;Free time \u2013 because I have so little of it. When I have a few hours to do nothing, that&amp;#039;s my idea of luxury. It usually involves staying in my pajamas and catching up on Twitter, as well as reading paper copies of my favorite magazines. It&amp;#039;s my time to catch up and recharge.&amp;quot; 3. How do you define luxury? &amp;quot;To me, luxury can be defined as incredibly well-made goods. Another small luxury for me is the ability to own art. I own a couple of pieces, and I hope to grow my collection. That&amp;#039;s true luxury.&amp;quot; 4. What is the last dream you remember? &amp;quot;They&amp;#039;ve all been pretty stressful recently. We had a late casting come in this week, so I worked on Sunday \u2013 which is unusual. So on Saturday, I woke up in the middle of the night thinking I slept in and missed the day of work. It was pretty terrible.&amp;quot; 5. What&amp;#039;s your favorite childhood memory? &amp;quot;When I was four or five, I decided I wanted to go shopping. My mother asked me what I wanted to buy, and how I was going to pay for it. She then told me to ask my father for money. So I called my father, and I told him I needed money to go shopping, and I needed $1,000. It was an early determining factor of where I ended up in my professional life.&amp;quot; 6. What&amp;#039;s the last book you read and loved? &amp;quot;Tina Fey&amp;#039;s Bossypants. I&amp;#039;m a little behind on the reading. I loved reading it and it was such a nice behind-the-scenes look at the industry that I&amp;#039;m in. I think Tina Fey is just so incredibly smart and funny. She&amp;#039;s a genius and incredibly beautiful. She&amp;#039;s a triple threat.&amp;quot; 7. Describe your home&amp;#039;s aesthetic. &amp;quot;I live in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, and my home can be described as &amp;#039;Mediterranean beach house meets Victorian seaside boardwalk.&amp;#039; It&amp;#039;s code for &amp;#039;kind of a mess.&amp;#039; I try to keep it organized, but my husband and I were kind of joking that we need to make an appointment to clean the house. We&amp;#039;ve just been so incredibly busy.&amp;quot; 8. What are your vices? &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m so boring: tea, water (I brought a bag of water with me to work today), and red wine. I do love red wine. But I had to give up coffee because it messed up my stomach. I really, really love coffee, but it doesn&amp;#039;t love me back. I also have a bit of a sweet tooth. I adore chocolate. I could eat it all the time.&amp;quot; 9. Describe yourself in five words or less. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m meticulous, optimistic, detail-oriented and organized.&amp;quot; 10. What possession will you never throw away? &amp;quot;That&amp;#039;s a tough one because I collect things. Being a costume designer, I hang on to things that could be costumes and I don&amp;#039;t let go of them. I call them my &amp;#039;kit&amp;#039;\u2013and that&amp;#039;s everything from trimmings and ribbons and zippers and buttons\u2013you never know when you&amp;#039;re going to need them.&amp;quot; Read the latest breaking culture news. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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