Friday, May 02, 2008
Kors resemblance
By Holton P. Potestas
LIKE mother, like son.
Putting together a black jacket, a black t-shirt, and a pair of white pants is a fashion statement for American designer Michael Kors. Joan, his mom and a former model, has also established her signature look: black turtleneck under black jacket—the less color, the better.
“My mother discovered a look 30 years ago, and it’s fabulous,” states Michael.
Joan to Pamela Sitt of Seattle Times says, “We have the same taste. Sometimes, we disagree on style. Our houses are the same: white walls, ivory upholstery. We have the same white sheets. Everything is black and white, ivory and camel.”
As a West Coast regional coordinator for the clothing label, she admits it doesn’t “ever get too close for comfort.”
She relates: “He called up one day, ‘You know, Mother, I was thinking nobody knows my clothes better than you do’.”
Sharing the same interest for traveling, the mother-and-son tandem created a jet set collection. And as most mothers would suggest, comfort must be prevalent. And yes, the black and white scheme.
Joan adds that working with her son makes her ageless: the exposure to new trends, the revival of the old, and the convergence of “in between.” And as they quote, age doesn’t matter.
“We are exactly 20 years apart, so we celebrate major birthdays together. We have a big one coming up, his 50th and my 70th. He asked, ‘Mother, where do you want to go?’ I don’t know,” Joan shares.
If she’s not in Michael Kors?
“Ralph Lauren.”
Behind a successful wardrobe is a mother. But in the Kors’s case, it could be vice versa, of course!
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