So i read this today and wanted to give my thoughts….

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/07/opinion/07Garelick.html?_r=1&ref=opinion

 i found this article really disturbing and sad. I don’t like that she compared the fashion industry to the fascist dictatorship. i understand her points of reference and sure, you can make the analogy, but to consider the terror that existed in the 1940s around the world and in Europe and compare this to the business of high fashion just seems in poor taste. Everyone in the fashion industry can walk out at any time. they can leave. CHOICE is the fundamental difference that she is forgetting to mention.

as someone who works/thinks about style and fashion on a very personalized level i hope to create an experience that is about being your best self, celebrating what is beautiful about how you express yourself and not conforming to one standard. Fashion should be artful and fun, always. no exceptions. nothing good comes with strict rules… and i hope that GO TRY IT ON and everyone we touch gets a sense for that type of goodness and self expression. Confidence and advice and thoughtful help is what i want fashion to be about… yes, aspirational, but never painful, never upsetting. You walk an interesting line with beauty and image…but what if we got together and decided it didnt’ have to be like that. Fashion is just one layer into self expression… like what job you have and who your friends are and what you read and what you like to do … let’s recognize it as that…nothing more, nothing less… but always with happiness and thanks that we can take the time to focus on something as lovely as fashion and are not trouble with fears and thoughts of survival.