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"  When celebrity stylist Andrea Lieberman resolved to design her own line of clothes, one of her inspirations was client and friend Shirley Manson, the lead singer of Garbage. &amp;quot;She&amp;#039;s just effortlessly cool and a little punk rock,&amp;quot; says Lieberman in her downtown Los Angeles studio, home base for A.L.C., her new collection of T-shirts, jersey dresses, trousers, and cardigans, which hit Barneys, Fred Segal, and Harvey Nichols in February. Scotswoman Manson, her signature flaming red hair teased out, is modeling one of A.L.C.&amp;#039;s navy-and-white striped maxidresses that makes her look, as Lieberman describes it, like a &amp;quot;demented doll.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s so about the lady in the dress, the personality in the clothes,&amp;quot; says Lieberman, who had a hand in such iconic fashion moments as Jennifer Lopez&amp;#039;s plunging sheer green Versace dress at the 2000 Grammys and Gwen Stefani&amp;#039;s Harajuku Girl look for the 2004 music video &amp;quot;What You Waiting For?&amp;quot; As Manson squeezes into a pair of A.L.C. skinny jean\u2013like pants, Lieberman looks on approvingly. &amp;quot;Shirley&amp;#039;s just so supercool. You can&amp;#039;t ever put her in a box,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;You&amp;#039;re mad, Andrea,&amp;quot; Manson responds, a little chagrined by the attention. &amp;quot;But who doesn&amp;#039;t want to be Andrea&amp;#039;s muse?&amp;quot; The two met at a trunk show in 2006, and Manson, who currently stars as a killing machine in Chanel heels on Fox&amp;#039;s Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, will likely be the first of many celebs sporting Lieberman&amp;#039;s clothes on the red carpet. At the Scottish Style Awards last fall, she wore one of Lieberman&amp;#039;s black Waterman dresses with bell sleeves. &amp;quot;I was nominated for Scottish Stylish Bitch,&amp;quot; she jokes. (She was actually crowned Most Stylish Female.) &amp;quot;People thought my dress was effortless and fabulous.&amp;quot; It&amp;#039;s also relatively inexpensive. (Cotton knits start at $120, skirts and trousers at $345, and dresses at $195.) &amp;quot;If you need a dress for dinner, it shouldn&amp;#039;t cost you $3,000,&amp;quot; Lieberman maintains. Though she&amp;#039;s influenced by designers like Madame Gr\u00E8s and Azzedine Ala\u00EFa, Lieberman was mainly inspired by the ease of American fashion. As a teenager, she studied design at Parsons and was motivated to start her own collection after 10 years of chasing musicians and celebrities around the globe.  &amp;quot;There&amp;#039;s a lot going on in a woman&amp;#039;s life these days, in my life way more than ever,&amp;quot; says Lieberman, who gave birth to a daughter, Paloma, last May. &amp;quot;I want to make real clothes for real people\u2014everyday clothes that feel like they take too much effort aren&amp;#039;t modern to me,&amp;quot; she says. Indeed, her chiffon army parka ($715) or a striped navy-and-white muscle tee ($150) might wear even better, Lieberman insists, after having been rolled in a ball and squeezed into your luggage rather than pressed by a professional dry cleaner. &amp;quot;There&amp;#039;s no fussiness,&amp;quot; Manson adds. Lieberman&amp;#039;s favorite pieces for spring include tomboy slouchy-skinny trousers based on a pair of army pants (which can be dressed up with a tuxedo jacket or down with a simple top) as well as a versatile Sari maxidress inspired by a last-minute search for the perfect dress to wear to a Dolce &amp;amp;amp; Gabbana party in Milan. &amp;quot;I didn&amp;#039;t have time to put together my outfits,&amp;quot; Lieberman recalls. &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;d have a superstar suitcase and we&amp;#039;d have my suitcase. The stuff in this collection is what I wish had been in my suitcase.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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