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And I'm The First One To Tell People To Break The Rules. But You Can Only Break The Rules Once You Know What The Rules Are. The Other Thing Is, Fashion Is The Last Design Discipline To Actually Have Academic Texts And Historical Analysis.

I Have A Very Socratic Approach - I Pummel The Designers With Questions, So When I Get Them To Step Back From The Work And Look At It With Me, They'll Eventually See What I See, Coming To It Fresh And Unencumbered. That's Always Very Gratifying Because They Feel A Responsibility And An Ownership Of A Solution.

I Was A Teacher And An Administrator At Parson's School Of Design, And As An Administrator, I Was Associate Dean. And In That Role, I Went Around Fixing Things That Were Broken. And The Parson's Fashion Program Was Broken.so Fashion Chose Me. It Needed To Be Developed And Evolve. I Don't Know If It Comes Naturally To Anyone.

I'm Constantly Reminding Myself That The World Owes Us Nothing. We Have To Make Our Way And We Have To Work Hard, Persevere And Make Our Own Way In The World Because The World Isn't Waiting For Us, So Let's Let The World Know We Are Here.

I Have Heard Women Complain About Men Holding Doors For Them,, As If It Is Inherently Offensive And Implies That They Are Weak. ... I Would Hold A Door For Anyone. ... It Has To Do With Noticing Our Fellow Human Beings And Saying, "i Recognize That You're On This Planet, And I Don't Want A Door Hitting You In The Face.