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Interview, Feb, 2002 by Patrick Giles

Every winter's end the ice breaks, the snow melts and the earth warms again, its spring returning to us like an old friend. The plenitude of flora evident in this season's fashion (in addition to demonstrating the flourishing of technique and taste) demonstrates how the best fashion must have a touch of the psychic in it: A designer must know, somehow, what the wearer of the future not only will like to wear, but need to wear.

And now that we're again turning back to the sun it's time to rise, arm ourselves with flowers (and flower-bedecked fashion), face the new life ahead of us, and remember the best future is the one we walk into wellprepared and unafraid. "We are in nature, of nature, and for nature," George Sand, who adored flowers, once wrote. It's a line that could easily have described this spring's collections, the optimism and elegance of which Mine. Sand herself would certainly have approved.