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" Famous for her happy-go-lucky prints, designer Trina Turk hits full stride this season. For the New York set, there&amp;#039;s an East Hampton pop-up boutique stocked with printed pillows and beach towels to perk up a summer rental. To celebrate her company&amp;#039;s 15th anniversary, she&amp;#039;s making her debut at New York Fashion Week in September, showcasing her trademark flirty dresses and graphic fabrics for upholstery. And she&amp;#039;s working on a bedding collection that&amp;#039;s certain to enliven the home. Meanwhile, on the West Coast, Turk and her photographer husband, Jonathan Skow, are busy planning dinner-party menus around their garden and setting the table with their favorite vintage finds. We checked in to get the latest on her creative endeavors\u2014at work, at home, and at play.  Your designs will surely be among the brightest of the bunch at New York Fashion Week. How will you reconcile your exuberant colors with Manhattan&amp;#039;s classic black? We&amp;#039;re doing a vignettes presentation in our showroom, combining our home products with clothing and accessories\u2014definitely California-inspired and optimistic. I love the power of black, but I think it becomes even more powerful when you combine it with other colors or utilize it in a print.  Have you always been color obsessed? It might have been ingrained in me from growing up in California in the 1960s and &amp;#039;70s. My husband and I did a Big Sur trip recently, and we stopped by places I went as a kid. There was a lot of color, like these yellow and orange and pink and purple flowers growing on cliffs that go down to the ocean. I didn&amp;#039;t set out to have a colorful lifestyle brand. All I wanted was to do a women&amp;#039;s clothing collection, and it just took on a life of its own. Designing the textiles and working with color is pretty much my favorite part of my job. You frequently entertain at your two Southern California homes\u2014a midcentury-modern house in Los Angeles, and the iconic &amp;quot;Ship of the Desert&amp;quot; in Palm Springs. How do the locations shape your entertaining styles? We go out to Palm Springs on the weekends as much as we can\u2014October is my favorite month in the desert. There, you can call people up on the spur of the moment, and the attitude is relaxed\u2014more like hanging around by the pool and grilling. In L.A., advance planning is required, so the invitation process is a little more complicated.  When you have friends over, how do you and your husband divvy up the host duties?  My husband loves to cook\u2014he would have a dinner party every week if I let him. So he&amp;#039;s in charge of the menu and the food, and I&amp;#039;m in charge of the music and the setup and the table: Are we eating indoors or outdoors? What&amp;#039;s the table going to look like? Are we going to have flowers? I usually finish first, so then I&amp;#039;m the prep cook and do whatever is assigned to me. How do you devise your menus? This year we actually ripped up part of our lawn and turned it over to a vegetable garden, so whatever is ready in the garden inspires the menu. It&amp;#039;s pretty amazing when you go out there and pick the lettuce and eat it five minutes later. What do you serve for drinks?  We&amp;#039;re on a mission to bring back the white-wine spritzer, but so far we have not had many takers. I know they went out with the &amp;#039;80s, but I don&amp;#039;t understand why they&amp;#039;re so despised! Other than that, if you have citrus trees in your yard\u2014we have quite a few in the desert\u2014it&amp;#039;s great to pick oranges or lemons or limes and make cocktails using the juice. One of my favorite things is Campari and fresh-squeezed grapefruit. The color is amazing: The pink-orange grapefruit juice with the Campari creates a red-to-orange ombr\u00E9 effect that&amp;#039;s so gorgeous.  What are some of your favorite pieces to set the table with?  Because I do a lot of vintage shopping, I have quite an array to choose from. That&amp;#039;s the fun part. It&amp;#039;s like putting together an outfit, figuring out what the table&amp;#039;s going to look like. Sometimes it&amp;#039;s fun to use gold-rimmed china on a picnic table, or something that&amp;#039;s not necessarily what you&amp;#039;d expect. I have a lot of vintage Vera dishes\u2014they&amp;#039;re very colorful, and I have to say, they don&amp;#039;t always look great with food on them! We also have some Joe Colombo glassware that was designed so you could hold a drink and a cigarette at the same time. I don&amp;#039;t even smoke, but it&amp;#039;s really great. Do you have any favorite sources for vintage finds?  I am always on the lookout. Vintage shopping is my big hobby and luckily somewhat related to what I do for a living. In L.A., I go regularly to flea markets and vintage-clothing sales. In Palm Springs, there are a lot of vintage modern furniture stores and even thrift shops that I love. My favorite is Bon Vivant, which has mainly decorative accessories for the home\u2014glassware, pottery, artwork, metal, a little bit of jewelry. Another is Hedge, in Cathedral City. Same thing: It&amp;#039;s like going into the house of somebody who has amazing taste and an amazing collection of whatever it is they&amp;#039;re into. For dishware, eBay has been a good source. If there&amp;#039;s a dish you like, you can just keep collecting it until you have enough to actually use.  So what should we wear to your next Palm Springs party? When people show up in vintage or Trina Turk, they&amp;#039;re always welcomed with open arms! But honestly, as much as I love to wear black, it just doesn&amp;#039;t feel right in the desert. So I would say wear white, wear color, wear prints\u2014it&amp;#039;s more fun!  \u2014Interview by Laura Regensdorf But wait, there&amp;#039;s more ... Click here to see photos of Trina Turk&amp;#039;s midcentury-modern home in Los Angeles. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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