If there is one person who needs a peaceful moment, it’s Meryll Rogge.

“I have a lot going on right now,” quipped the Belgian designer backstage before her spring show.

Understatement of the year, given that in addition to her own brand, which netted her the Grand Prize at this year’s ANDAM Awards, she was recently named creative director at Marni. And if that wasn’t enough, in September she launched knitwear label B.B. Wallace with British knitwear maven Sarah Allsopp.

With so many avenues to express her creativity, Rogge said she “felt totally free to do whatever [she] wanted” under her own name.

Despite all this, she somehow carved out time to read the autobiography of American actress Cookie Mueller, which triggered thoughts of carefree attitudes and freedom that lead down myriad r

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