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"  Photo: Nicholas Kirkwood/Net-a-Porter We spent the morning tucked away in the dreamy bridal area on Bergdorf Goodman&amp;#039;s seventh floor chatting with a fresh-in-from-London Nicholas Kirkwood. The shoe designer was game to talk about pop culture, the season&amp;#039;s newest heel height, and some of the perks of his post (case in point: he&amp;#039;s been wearing samples of his upcoming men&amp;#039;s styles, not officially available until June). After wrapping up our t\u00EAte-\u00E0-t\u00EAte, Kirkwood&amp;#039;s attention was claimed by a bride-to-be who&amp;#039;d heard the man himself was in the building. There for a fitting, she pulled up her Monique Lhuillier gown to show off the lacy white Kirkwoods she&amp;#039;d be wearing down the aisle. The perfectly polite Brit asked when the wedding was, congratulated her, and then admitted it was his first time meeting a bride wearing one of his designs. ELLE: Did you watch yourself on The Rachel Zoe Project? Nicholas Kirkwood: I can&amp;#039;t. I&amp;#039;m not going to because I&amp;#039;ll get all self-conscious, and the next time I ever have to do anything on TV, I&amp;#039;ll be like, &amp;quot;I can&amp;#039;t be this way or that way.&amp;quot; Distant cousins were emailing me saying, &amp;quot;Oh yeah, you&amp;#039;re on this!&amp;quot; Maybe I&amp;#039;ll watch it in five years&amp;#039; time. ELLE: So, no Zoe show for you. Are you a Game of Thrones fan? Excited about season three? NK: One of my great friends is in it! Gwendoline Christie, who is like a tall warrior princess. [Editor&amp;#039;s note: She plays Brienne of Tarth.] She&amp;#039;s, like, 6 feet tall. We used to hang out in east London before, and now she&amp;#039;s jumping everywhere. What have I been watching? The Borgias, and I watched Boardwalk Empire. They keep coming out with new ones every week, and I&amp;#039;m recording them. I haven&amp;#039;t really caught up with it, so I just watch it now and again. Otherwise, I don&amp;#039;t watch that much TV. If I do, it&amp;#039;s just movies and box sets in an entire day. ELLE: When we chatted last about your spring collection, it was all about the lower heel you did for the season. NK: Yes, it&amp;#039;s definitely a challenging area of design. Is it just the watered down version of the high heel, or is it something else? I really try to make it be its own thing, where it can be a low, easy height, but still fashion-relevant. You get a new customer that maybe wanted to buy into the brand before but perhaps the heels were too high. You also get the girl who already does buy [Kirkwood], but now she has another occasion to wear it. It&amp;#039;s been really successful so far and is something we&amp;#039;re definitely going to be continuing with. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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