Here's What I Know

Clothes look better washed and pressed.

Don't be lazy

Here's What I Know

A woman once told me that one of the secrets to a successful business was to realize that most people just want to be told what to do.

It was the reason (from a purely fashion point of view), she explained, that people hire stylists, read fashion magazines so they know what's in and what's out, wait list for yet another bag or shoe. Her list went on and on.

As I run my own little group of companies I tend to think she was right

however

I sometimes want to find her and over a nice cup of coffee,
let her know,
that in my experience

girls who wear vintage tend to be the ones doing the telling
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Here's What I Know

People always ask me to divulge secrets - where do I get stuff? How do you find out about labels? How do I clean stuff......the questions are endless. I always have the best of intentions to sit down and post these long intellectual posts but then running my little empire (as I alone affectionately call it) gets in the way and well.....
I don't.

So I decided to just post little bits here and there as I think them up and decide they might have some relevance.

So here is one of the things I know

"Just because it has a label doesn't mean it can't be butt F(*&&)K ugly"

Every designer has made a mistake. I don't buy ugly (or try not too anyway) Don't you either. There is too much of it in the world already - why add to it?

That being said sometimes one persons ugly is anther's extremely collectible and worth a damn fortune. This has happened to me - I have turned down ugly only to find out it was some important piece in the designer's career and I could have retired to a beach house.

So if you are going to get into this business, or all yourself a collector, don't be an uneducated sot. It's hard to know it all, but try.
Try Hard.

And despite the lack of a beach house (yet) given the choice,
I still would error on the side of beauty