Fashion designer Cynthia Rowley is a bit of a legend on the New York and global style scene— she's been the go-to designer for fun, colorful, floral flirty dresses, sporty-inspired swimwear and lifestyle collections for three decades. Known for her whimsical signature Rowley has long been the designer that inspires "radical optimism". This makes perfect sense as she is an eternal optimist and says her job and getting to create every day are the biggest joys of her life. Well, that, along with daughters Kit 24, and Gigi, 19, traveling the world in search of adventure and riding the waves in Montauk—she's been surfing for over twenty years and her cult-wetsuits are loved by celebrities including Kim Kardashian, Gwyneth Paltrow and Carolyn Murphy.
Fashion Times recently paid the funny, and seriously cool designer a visit at her NYC studio in TriBeCa and asked her to spill her secrets in our new video series "If My Handbag Could Talk". Watch it here to see what her bag says about her, and be surprised as Rowley gives it her own unique spin.
