Norman Ambrose

Norman Ambrose wants to cater to the jet-setting modern woman who not only knows what she wants, but wants to look good while doing it. The designer's Spring/Summer 2012 collection is full of mystery and glamour encapsulated in sleek black styles and elegant metallic gowns. Inspired by the movie Murder on the Orient Express, Ambrose has a simple aesethetic: “everything is very rich: lots of gold, red, green, black, turquoise even," he told Uinterview exclusively.

Ambrose grew up in California attending school in San Francisco and Milan, where he was given the chance to work with Versace and Bottega Veneta. The designer started making sketches of his own clothes at the age of 12, moved to New York at 23 and launched his own line at 25. So whose the Norman Ambrose woman? "These are women who travel all over the world and the collection was based on traveling to the French and Italian Rivieras, so places like Capri or St. Tropez," he told Uinterview. "Back then, they were destinations that really did take quite a long time to get to. They were less accessible than today, and just kind of the fantasy behind that, the glamor and the mystery."

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