Success in Fashion / Lessons from Summer Camp

Today we bring you a special on designers! Kudos to those clothes peeps who just create wearable art. Success will find it’s way. That seems to be the key phrase for designers Rodarte, Avalon Vega, Jeremy Laing, Christophe Decarnin’s Balmain, Marchesa, Gareth Pugh, Alexander Wang [my fav site]. If gravity is our drive and ambition, than water is our success. If there is enough gravity the water will flow.

“I had to do it. I had to give it a try because I think I owe it to myself to do it now when I’m young” — Jason Wu

“I started out working when I was 14 in a costume department” — Gareth Pugh

“Initially, when I started, it was out of my dorm room. It was just me and my sister-in-law” — Alexander Wang

“The reality is, is that you just can’t stop, no matter what someone would necessarily say to you. First and foremost, to do this you really need a drive”