PS: The new collection is a celebration of feminine dressing: the silky feel; the feathery frays; the draped silhouettes; the chain links, even. Tell me about the inspiration behind it.
PC: I really wanted to go back to the root of all of all this, which was by mistake of me painting things on my bedroom floor: putting things together in a really naive way without the idea of final outcomes or the pressure of, will it succeed? The last collection I did, it felt a bit stressful and I was listening to a lot of other people. I wanted to go back to my instincts — which I should trust — and do something that I really thought worked.
I went to Miami quite a few times this year, and I love the sort of artificial landscape there. It doesn't feel real, and I wanted to create a . . . not kitsch, but glamorous kind of feel. I like to just have a lot of fun with it, you know? Have it not be so serious. I design a lot of the prints with my husband, Adriel [Church-Herrera], who's really good at helping me with prints and coming up with silhouettes. It's very soft and sexy and camp.
