PART 2
career
I put on my motherās fur coat at five and refused to take it off
āADRIENNE LANDAU
I got my first Vogue subscription, at nine
āARAKS YERAMYAN
My father took me to NYC to buy his fabrics when I was five years old
āBARRY BRICKEN
I hit NYC in 1964
āBETSEY JOHNSON
My father offered me a pair of Ray Ban sunglasses at age fifteen (in 1974, when they were not available yet in Europe)
āCHRISTIAN ROTH
I saw Cher on TV
āDAVID MEISTER
I started making dresses
āDIANE VON FURSTENBERG
I learned about great designers from a lecture on āhistory of fashionā at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
āGEMMA KAHNG
I went to the Victoria and Albert Museum as a child
āGEORGINA CHAPMAN
I was a young child, helping my father in his atelier
āGILLES MENDEL
I put on my first fashion show at sixteen years old. I turned the dining-room table into a stage and my sisters were my models. It got rave reviews!
āBRIAN ATWOOD
At eight everyone was looking at me because I dressed so differently and then I realized the power of clothes
āCATHERINE MALANDRINO
I saw the Disney Cinderella movie around six years old. After watching the scene of the birds and mice putting together a dress for Cinderella, I ran to my grandmotherās closet and started cutting her lace silk sleeping gowns to make the same dress.
āGABRIELA PEREZUTTI
I figured out I could mold metal and use my sculptor skills to make jewelry
āISAAC MANEVITZ
My sister home-sewed a bad shift dress in 1969
āJAMES PURCELL
I reworked my school uniform every day
āJOHN BARTLETT
I started designing clothes inspired by my favorite rock-ānā-roll icons
āTOMMY HILFIGER
I traveled to London in 1964 and saw that every rule in fashion, music, and culture had been broken.
āNORMA KAMALI
I fell in love with figure skating and designed my own costume
āVERA WANG
I looked at a garment and sketched a way to improve it
āMAXWELL OSBORNE
I wanted to design things I was missing
āTORY BURCH
Always. It is part of my DNA.
āJUDITH RIPKA
I saw Shirley MacLaine wearing Edith Headās extraordinary costumes in the film What a Way to Go!
āKENNETH BONAVITACOLA
I knew exactly what I wanted to wear, but I couldnāt find it at the mall
āLAUREN MOFFATT
I spent a high school summer at Parsons School of Design in NYC
āLISA JENKS
Always. I would design and create couture for my dolls when I was a child....