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One to watch: Christina Makowsky design

Published: February 3, 2012 2:30 PM
By ANNE BRATSKEIR. Special to Newsday

Photo credit: Agaton Strom | Fashion designer Christina Makowsky sits for a portrait in her studio and show room in Manhasset. (Jan. 18, 2012)

A couple of weeks before Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, Christina Makowsky of Lattingtown is obsessing about her collection.

But unlike the hundreds of other designers who will showcase creations for next fall starting Thursday morning all over Manhattan, she is not anguishing over casting models and producing full-scale runway shows. Makowsky is focusing her 3-year-old company on Hollywood red...