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"    Photo: ImaxTree   After taking a spin through Rachel Roy&amp;#039;s color-drenched spring collection, it was clear the designer loves her ladies. She gave ELLE.com a phone call the afternoon after her presentation to talk inspiration, expansion, and Joan Rivers. ELLE: So we heard you just got finished taping Fashion Police. Rachel Roy: It was a lot of fun. I have a lot of respect for Joan and think she&amp;#039;s a really hard worker. She generally appreciated the fact that I was honest and not only said whether or not I liked something, but explained why. Every time I do something like this I get a lot of haters that are like, &amp;quot;That&amp;#039;s fugly, why do you like that?&amp;quot; But part of me takes pride in that as long as I explain why I like something, and I have good intentions, I feel good about it.   ELLE: Are you relieved your presentation is over? RR: I like putting collections together, but the part I don&amp;#039;t like is the show because there are so many elements that can go wrong and do go wrong, and you have no control over it. You have to take every ounce of strength and grace to just give it back to the universe and say, &amp;quot;Okay, I tried my best, and this look just came out completely un-hemmed or wrinkled, and they didn&amp;#039;t put the right jewelry with it.&amp;quot; Part of me sees how little that matters in the big picture, but I&amp;#039;m someone who cares deeply about details. I [honestly] prefer going to the shows. ELLE: What are you seeing this week? RR: Usually I show a little bit earlier and am able to go to more, but I&amp;#039;m going to Marchesa, and I&amp;#039;m really excited. I love both Keren [Craig] and Georgina [Chapman] just as women. They&amp;#039;re kind, and generous, and also incredibly talented. I wish I could have gowns as part of my collections, so for me it&amp;#039;s fun to see something that&amp;#039;s so different from what I do. Particularly knowing it&amp;#039;s coming from those kind of women who are such girl&amp;#039;s girls. ELLE: Do you plan on relaxing, too, now that the presentation is over? RR: Well, my plan is to grow the business and get really big so I can just phone it in [laughs]. But I&amp;#039;m not there yet, so we open market tomorrow. I really want to just expand the business. I want international stores. So for now, the relaxation comes in the form of a bubble bath and a glass of wine. ELLE: What&amp;#039;s your ideal location for a store out of the U.S.? RR: I&amp;#039;m actually opening a store in China, and they&amp;#039;re developing the store to look like my showroom. I have these odd chandeliers that were actually made by fashion students. I love nature combined with fashion, so I have some agate tables, some wood tables. I&amp;#039;d love to expand to India. Since I&amp;#039;m half-Indian, it&amp;#039;s always been something that&amp;#039;s really important to me. ELLE: Out of everything you showed today, we really loved the linen-lace hybrid pieces you did. RR: You know, I went to the Italian islands for the first time, and they have these shops like the way we have them in Times Square. The same sunglasses over and over. But in Italy, they&amp;#039;re so damn chic, they have these stores over and over filled with white, embroidered lace and at a great price. It&amp;#039;s something I&amp;#039;d never seen before, even in India where you have these amazing muslins and cottons. It&amp;#039;s just beautiful. I was inspired to figure out how I could bring this back and make it a bit more substantial. The pieces you see in the shops there are thinner and light-weight and see-through, so they&amp;#039;re the perfect cover-ups. ELLE: You had some great, crystal-encrusted heels, too. RR: I actually took a pair off a model before I went to Fashion Police and put them on. I think of them like a pick-me-up. If you&amp;#039;re in a hurry and need to tell a story about yourself, I think the quickest way to do it is with your shoes. On the set [of Fashion Police], Kelly wanted a pair; Joan commented on them. See the Spring 2013 Rachel Roy collection. See all the Spring 2013 Ready-to-Wear collections. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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