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Michael Kors Returns to ‘Project Runway’ as a Guest Judge, Plus Talking About the Steep Decline in Luxury Sales and Marc Jacobs Up for Sale for $1 Billion

In the latest “Savage Fashion” podcast episode, WWD’s chief content officer Jim Fallon and fashion director Alex Badia sat down with Michael Kors to discuss his fashion-obsessed childhood and ascent to the industry as well as his return to “Project Runway,” filmed at the renovated and recently reopened Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York.

“I always thought you had to be by the book,” Kors told Fallon and Badia. “You go to FIT, you graduate, you become an assistant working for another designer and you learn the ropes. There was never a doubt that I was going to have the Michael Kors brand and it was going to be my own thing — but I didn’t know it was going to happen so fast.”

When Kors attended FIT in 1977, it was at the height of Studio 54. He walked into the famous nightclub and immediately felt right at home. “I was seeing the designers I admired out and about and seeing the women they dressed: Halston, Calvin [Klein] or Steven Burrows. I knew this would be my world.”

Kors shared that his brand’s aesthetic is personal to who he is — “I’m a bit of a contradiction…