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Joanna Goddard's One Is the Loveliest Color piece in NY Mag is a totally fun and breezy read--What the?!? Yeah, there's good ol' Karim in his white suit! And for all of you who ever wondered:

Q. Why white?

A. In college, I was obsessed with wearing all white. I felt angelic and free. But then, in the early eighties, I started wearing black. That was status quo in the avant-garde. If you were interesting--a designer, an architect--you wore all black.

Q. Why didn't you return to black back in New York?

A. Every profession has dress codes. In 2000, I was on a panel with nine architects, and I wore a white suit. Everyone was wearing black except me. I felt detached from the incestuous profession.

Q. Now you also wear pink. Why?

A. Sometimes I think it's because my mother dressed me in pink when I was a child. She wanted me to be a girl.

...My statement is, Be who you are. Do what turns you on.