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"    Photo: ImaxTree   With sequins, tie-dye, and punky colored clip-on bangs, the atmosphere at Libertine&amp;#039;s spring presentation was nothing if not fun. After watching girl after kooky girl spin and pout for photographers (and a host of guys, too, including one in a politically-charged tee), the question begged asking: Just who is this lady? ELLE.com found designer Johnson Hartig in the crowd and quizzed him for details. ELLE: So who is this girl? Johnson Hartig: I think she hangs out in opium dens in Moscow or Shanghai or Paris, but in the 1920s. That&amp;#039;s kind of what I imagined. Her strolling home through the streets at four in the morning. But I think, in reality, she lives in New York, and Los Angeles, and Paris, and London and isn&amp;#039;t in an opium den. She&amp;#039;s very alert and modern and listens to an eclectic playlist.   ELLE: When you were casting models, did you think about whether she could pull off the vivacious attitude? JH: I don&amp;#039;t even look at their books. I just go by energy, and I tell them, &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s going to be a very fun thing. Are you a fun person?&amp;quot; You can tell a lot by the way they respond. If they kind of shut down then I know. But [sometimes] I&amp;#039;ll engage them a little bit, and by the end, often girls I didn&amp;#039;t think would be right are so much fun. Even if they&amp;#039;re not the prettiest girls, I&amp;#039;ll always go with them if I love their energy.  ELLE: That makes sense. JH: And it&amp;#039;s funny because our biggest client is a 75-year-old woman in Ohio, a major art collector. She has like 75 blazers, I&amp;#039;ve heard. They send boxes of it from Bergdorf [Goodman]. ELLE: Have you gotten to meet her? JH: I never have, but I&amp;#039;d love to. I do trunk shows in Aspen every summer, so I do meet a lot of the women, which is amazing. They&amp;#039;re eccentric, and a lot are really involved in the art world. They&amp;#039;re a little bit older than one would think, which I love.  See the Spring 2013 Libertine collection. See all the Spring 2013 Ready-to-Wear collections. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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