SADIE FROST <!-- Original: [ SADIE FROST] -->'s well-documented trapeze habit wasn't the only inspiration behind FrostFrench's louis vuitton outlet dramatic, ruffle-filled collection for autumn/winter 2007-8, which is entitled In The Wings. "So when I'm lying in bed in the morning and thinking, ' Oh God, I wish I was starring in, like, a French movie with some amazing to me, ' I click my fingers and go, ' Stupid. You can't lie in bed eating croissants with your lover. "We're all so obsessed with the perfect pout, the perfect this, the perfect that. But now when I look at perfect men, for example, I don't think they are beautiful at all. Perfection, I've learnt, doesn't bring happiness. I myself used to be a chronic perfectionist, used to like looking at beautiful women, beautiful men. Perfection is a curse. She has instead thrown by herself into working on the fashion label she founded in 1999 with friend Jemima French; FrostFrench's first Chanel Handbags stand-alone store opens in London's Camden Passage, N1, in a few weeks ' time.

"I also called it that because I'm interested in what the dancers look like when they're not being watched, when they're limbering up before they go on stage, when they're not picture perfect," the designer explains. "In my opinion, you can't hold down a job, have four kids and be in the throes of a grand love affair at the same time," she tells Style magazine. " Frost has recently given up alcohol and the wild nights she was once famous for enjoying with her ex, Jude Law, with whom she has three children, chanel 2.55 as well as a son with first husband Gary Kemp ? and the notorious arty Primrose Hill set. You gotta get to work! " (August 20, 2007, AM)

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