Courtesy of Lifetime
Georgina Chapman has it all. After a successful stint as a
model, she teamed with her Chelsea College of Art and Design classmate, Keren
Craig, to launch the Marchesa fashion line. These days she’s a judge on Project
Runway: All Stars and on December 20, Lifetime will air a half-hour special
about her company, Project Runway Spotlight: Marchesa.
To top it all off Georgina is married to media mogul Harvey
Weinstein. Despite their 24-year age difference, the couple has a two-year-old
daughter, India, and another baby on the way.
In a recent conference call interview she talked about
balancing her personal life and career. Georgina explained, “I make sure I
carve out time to be with my daughter. She’s my number one priority, my
family.”
That includes including her little girl in her daily duties. “India comes into the office with me most days. She has her little area with a desk and everything where she draws… I leave later in the mornings now and spend the mornings with her. So I do see her. She spends a lot of time with me at work.”
Of course that will have to change when India is a little older, “I don’t know how that’s going to work once she’s at school. I’m going to miss her. It’s going to be hard.”
Luckily Georgina will have a new bundle of joy to share her
time with. But carrying another child hasn’t slowed her down. “I sometimes feel
I’m most creative when I’m pregnant. I guess because I am physically creating
at the same time. I just keep going. The show must go on.”
It isn’t always easy to plow through her workload though.
Georgina conceded, “Some days you’re a little more tired than you normally
might be but I do feel very creative when I’m pregnant. I love tapping into
that energy because I think that’s what my whole physical being is about at
this time.”
And as she continues to create flawless frocks for
grown-ups, Georgina hasn’t ruled out having a kids line at some point. She
revealed, “I would love to one day, but I don’t know whether I will be any time
soon.”
So if she had to choose one Project Runway competitor to
design some duds for tots, Georgina noted, “Maybe Uli because she has that
sense of whimsy that would be great. I’m thinking girls because I have a girl. So
I think she would make really cute little baby clothes.”
Who knows, maybe her own daughter will contribute to the
Marchesa line some day. Fashion is one of her little girl’s hobbies. Georgina
remarked, “Being a two year old, running, drawing on everything, sticking
things on everything. She’s like a little Tasmanian devil running around. She
loves being at the office… going through all the fabrics and everything. She
loves fashion already. She strokes the dresses and goes, ‘Beautiful dress,
Mommy.’”
Yet even though Georgina has an eye for fashion and an in depth
knowledge of carrying baby weight, she wouldn’t dare to give advice to the
world’s most famous mommy to be — Kate Middleton. Georgina stated, “I couldn’t
advise Kate. She’s such a stylish girl and she always gets it right.”
After all, pregnant or not, choosing the right outfit is a
very subjective matter. As Georgina explained, “It depends on your body type. It’s
like dressing — your body changes so much and everybody changes differently. So
it really is a very personal thing and you just have to go with what your
comfortable with. You have to embrace it. You enjoy it. It’s a few months of
your life and it’s a special time of your life so I think just enjoy.
In the meantime, her heart goes out to the Duchess, “I just
hope she’s feeling better, poor thing. As being pregnant myself I just can’t
even imagine what a nightmare that must be. I hope she’s concentrating just on
getting a lot of rest right now.”
Tune in to Project Runway: All Stars every Thursday night at
9 p.m. EST/8 p.m. Central. And watch Project Runway Spotlight: Marchesa on
December 20 at 10 p.m. EST/9 p.m. Central on Lifetime.
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