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Were there any styles or designers that you had to convince Michelle to wear? Were there any looks she was ever skeptical about?<\/strong><\/p>\n She is pretty open-minded, in a way, and she\u2019s also really practical. She\u2019s not going to do something where she can\u2019t move, she\u2019s super uncomfortable, or she\u2019s super hot. She\u2019s very interested in, \u201cWhat\u2019s the weather? What\u2019s the venue? Who\u2019s going to be there?\u201d My philosophy is, like, let\u2019s see what the potential in a garment is. Even in this last photo shoot that came out, I had Jason Wu<\/strong> make this beautiful dress from his most recent collection, and she just didn\u2019t feel great in it and wasn\u2019t really open to exploring it, which made me extremely sad. So after the fitting, I took the dress and I was just thinking, How can we make this work? Because I really wanted Jason to be included in this\u2014he\u2019s an amazing designer, his work is solid, and the dress is beautiful. We ended up turning the dress into a top and pairing it with some sort of reconstructed jeans from Sami Mir\u00f3,<\/strong> and she eventually got on board. But what I do is, I convince, I prepare, and then I also prepare to be disappointed.<\/p>\n In the book you mention that you never got attached to anything. That\u2019s hard to do, I can imagine.<\/strong><\/p>\n It is only because the attachment isn\u2019t about that fashion has to be this or that. That is not necessarily how I feel. Although I do admire and really, truly respect so many houses, designers, and brands, it\u2019s not so much about the parts of fashion that are glamorous and flashy. It\u2019s just more about what can work for her, right? Woman to woman, I don\u2019t want to make another person uncomfortable, especially a client. There are limits. I kind of know where I can push her and where I need to just say, \u201cOkay, we\u2019re just going to do what works,\u201d because it\u2019s more important for her to be comfortable than to be a fashion plate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n