Alexandra Golovanoff Wants to Liberate Your Home – WWD

Alexandra Golovanoff believes there’s no such thing as bad taste. The French TV personality and knitwear designer recently published a manual called “Le goût, le goût, le goût” (“Taste, Taste, Taste” in English) — the title a reference to the fashion program that propelled her into the spotlight, “La mode, la mode, la mode.” But this consummate Parisienne is against hard-and-fast rules when it comes to style.  “The idea of this book is to question the notion of taste — neither good nor bad taste, but simply one’s own. I feel that right now, everyone has the same taste. Instagram and Pinterest have made things very bland, and it’s not even that nobody’s taking any risks, it’s that the very idea of taking a risk, of doing something personal, has disappeared,” she laments. To Golovanoff, the daughter of antique dealers, that’s akin to having no personality. “For me, taste is like a map, it’s almost like ID, it’s the sum of 10,000 little details. You have the tastes you advertise, hidden tastes, private tastes, explosive tastes, tastes that change over time. And in the end, all of that defines who you are. I think it’s something you shouldn’t neglect, because
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