Fellow Fashionista Questionnaire & Watch Giveaway!

Hello, my darling Fellow Fashionistas! CC is starting a TAG and you’re all IT! Copy the questions below [adapted from Elle] and post on your blog! Can’t wait to see your answers – CC’s are below.
Who is your favorite designer?
If you could come back as a dress, what would it be?
If you could come back as a model, who would it be?
Junk food?
What are you most vain about?
What are you most shy about?
If you could come back with someone else’s body, whose would it be?
Who are your fantasy dinner-party guests?
Fantasy celebrity one-night stand?
Favorite place to have a drink?
Underwear?
What can’t you travel without?
Last book you read?
At age seven, you wanted to be . . .
What’s the thing you find easiest to forgive?
What’s the thing you find impossible to forgive?
Biggest self-indulgence?
Favorite place to shop [brick and mortar]?
Favorite place to shop online?
Whose diary would you most like to read?
Least favorite food?
If you were an inventor, what would you invent?
Who are your favorite furniture designers?
Car?
What was your childhood nickname?
When and where are you happiest?
What piece of art would you most like to own?
What are your favorite vacation spots?
Most treasured possession?
Favorite fictional character?
Favorite musicians?
If you had another profession beside your own, what would it be?
What current trends would you like to see disappear?
Favorite trend of all time?
Always...
Never...

CC’s Answers:
Who is your favorite designer? Christian Lacroix
If you could come back as a dress, what would it be? ScarJo’s tulle-skirted Dolce & Gabbana bustier dress, worn at last year’s Met Costume Institute Gala
If you could come back as a model, who would it be? Natalia Vodianova
Junk food? Cool Ranch Doritos
What are you most vain about? My hair (that’s CC on the left and pal KK on the right)
What are you most shy about? My big feet...size 11 – yikes!
If you could come back with someone else’s body, whose would it be? Gisele’s!
Who are your fantasy dinner-party guests? President Obama, Woody Allen, Alec Baldwin, Kelly Ripa, Frank Gehry, and Diane von Furstenberg

Fantasy celebrity one-night stand? Hugh Jackman
Favorite place to have a drink? Bemelman’s Bar in the Carlyle Hotel, NYC
Underwear? Hanky Panky
What can’t you travel without? Fashion mags
Last book you read? The Debutante Divorcee by Plum Sykes
At age seven, you wanted to be . . . a writer.
What’s the thing you find easiest to forgive? Flakiness
What’s the thing you find impossible to forgive? Dishonesty
Biggest self-indulgence? My bustier and corset collection
Favorite places to shop [brick and mortar]? Barneys and The Intermix
Favorite places to shop online? Shopbop.com and theOutnet.com
Whose diary would you most like to read? Nobody’s – too private!
Least favorite food? Celery
If you were an inventor, what would you invent? A car that runs on compost
Who are your favorite furniture designers? Charles Eames, Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier
Car? Wish I had a BMW 325i convertible.
What was your childhood nickname? Carrie Cucumber
When and where are you happiest? Twice yearly, in line at the Barneys’ Warehouse Sale, reading the New Yorker and sipping a latte, poised to buy tons of amazing designer pieces for a song!
What piece of art would you most like to own? Fragonard’s The Swing (also pictured: a Harper’s Bazaar editorial from February 2002 photographed by Patrick Demarchelier)
What are your favorite vacation spots? Aspen and Aix-en Provence
Most treasured possession? My mother’s engagement ring, which also once belonged to my grandmother.
Favorite fictional character? Martha in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf”
Favorite musicians? Kanye West, The Shins, and Gift of Gab
If you had another profession beside your own, what would it be? Psychotherapist
What current trends would you like to see disappear? Jean shorts over tights

Favorite trend of all time? Tank watches. ONE DAY CONTEST! Enter to win this fabulous Stainless Steel timepiece from Orient Automatic Watches (a $290 value!) by leaving a relevant comment on this post! Limit one entry per blogger. International contestants welcome! Winner will be chosen at random tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. EST. Good luck, darlings!

Always... Be creative.
Never... feel bad for feeling bad.

xoxox,
CC