Well, I went to Temple for architecture and after getting laid off and working for myself
as a freelance designer, a friend of mine approached me and needed some work and so I guess it's
through accident that I became a quote unquote fashion designer, but I love it.
I absolutely love it.
I thought I found my passion with architecture and I feel blessed that I've been able to
find a second passion in my life and that is designing fashion, so it makes me very
happy.
I create one because I have to, two because I've always been a person that likes to make
things and experiment and I always ask a million questions and so I do it because to be honest
I do it because I don't know anything but creating, it's what I have to do.
The advice I would give to hopeful designers is to just be yourself, whatever you do, if
you enjoy hair or whatever and you want to create, say art, use that passion that you
have to create your art, like I love plastic, I love going to Home Depot, finding stuff
at Home Depot and using that to create my artwork and I look at the work that I create
as wearable works of art, so I would encourage people to look at what gives them excitement,
what they're passionate about and use that to transition into art that is really one
of a kind and if you can take your art and you can hold it up in the air and look at
it in the world and you think that there's something that remotely looks like it, I wouldn't
do it, change it and make it something that is unique so that it stands out.
If you're going to do it so that it blends in, don't do it, you might as well just forget
it and just go in and work at McDonald's or something but it's just not worth doing.
So I would encourage you to make it different, make it one of a kind, do what you're passionate
about and you'll be successful.
