Lauren Conrad: I'm Afraid Of Fashion Failure

Lauren Conrad admits that she is always afraid of failure and there's been many, many times where she questions herself about the clothing line she's putting out.

Lauren has a right to be because of bad publicity her first Lauren Conrad Collection received for bad designs and overpricing.

Lauren attributes this to the fact that she did not always have control over the collection because someone else was financing it.

Lauren learned real quick that if you're not the boss, you always have to meet in the middle.

The end result was New York Times called her first collection sub-Old Navy.

So now, Lauren Conrad has invested a large amount of her own capital just to have full creative control and ensure that her new collection is of higher quality and success.

With this, Lauren is designing very chic, clean pieces that have good fit and good fabrics sold at upscale boutiques ranging from $90 to $390.

Lauren hopes Paper Crown will see revenue in about a year after its' release.

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Lauren Conrad Departs From LAX Airport

Gearing up to re-enter the spotlight ahead of her new reality show's debut, Lauren Conrad was spotted readying for an outbound flight from LAX Airport in Los Angeles on Sunday (January 9).

Still rocking her darker hairdo, the former "Hills" hottie passed through the metro airport's security checkpoint before trekking through the terminal and onto an awaiting aircraft set for departure.

Aside from her television efforts, Miss Conrad is also making final preparations for the release of her upcoming Paper Crown collection due to launch this Fall.

And while she's made it clear that she'd rather focus on fashion and writing than TV, her agent Max Stubblefield explained that the show is necessary to help keep her buyer base intact and growing.

Of the decision to return to MTV, Stubblefield said, "Lauren's new businesses will feed on the show—which will feed on the new businesses"

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Lauren Conrad Starts Filming In Just One Week!

Lauren Conrad is getting camera ready: She tells Us Magazine she begins shooting her new MTV reality show in a week!

"Right now it's like music samples and picking lights," she told Us Wednesday at an Operation Smile event in Beverly Hills. "We start in about a week. I'm excited. It's smaller this time, which is really great and most of the people I'm working with are most of my favorite people."

The show will be shot more like a documentary (think The September Issue) and focus on getting her new fashion line, Paper Crown, off the ground.

"It's going to focus on a clothing line I'm doing with two of my best friends, but it's also going to show all the other things that I do as well as the lifestyle," she told Us.

Don't expect any catfights a la The Hills.

"This [show] is the other side," she told Us. "While we were filming, there was so much of our lives that we weren't allowed to show, and this is basically the rest."

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Lauren Conrad Dishes on New Reality TV Show

After leaving the hit reality show the Hills, Lauren Conrad spent a lot of her time working on novels like L.A. Candy. Now, the 24-year-old is talking about a new MTV reality show, but this time, it will be on her terms.

“It is reality, it will be more career based so the main focus is my contemporary line, Paper Crown,” Lauren told reporters on Friday night, “But we’re also looking to focus on other projects I have in television, with Kohl’s, the books that I’m writing – so hopefully it will be all the different things that I get to do.”

Lauren says that although nothing is set in stone yet, she is very excited to do a new series.

“I’m very excited, we start filming next month and we’re still trying to get everybody on board so I don’t have a ton of details yet but I’m really looking forward to it,” the author revealed at the Teen Vogue Young Hollywood party (click here for pictures).

LC admits that she agreed to do the new show only if she was able to have more input on the content, as opposed to her days on the Hills.

“It was great because I was allowed to lay down ground rules and say this is what I’m willing to put on camera again and this is what I’m not. Everybody is on the same page so I’m very happy going into it.”

And as for guest stars?

“Lo [Bosworth]’s too busy for me! I have my roommate Maura who is running my clothing line so you’ll be seeing her and a couple other of my friends but it will be more of new faces, ones that hid from cameras before.”

With fresh faces, everyone is wondering if Lauren’s boyfriend and fellow actor Kyle Howard will be making an appearance.

“No,” the starlet tells OK!, but says that, “he’s very supportive.”

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