CELL PHONE: Ladies outerwear

Monday, 23 July 2012

Ladies outerwear

How and why did I start my apparel company? As you know from my How-Tos, I’m always making (or rather, mutilating) Goth/Punk clothes and accessories. I went to law school, but quickly realized that working in a firm wasn’t for me. Can you picture my smudged eyeshadow and Robert Smith hair behind a desk?

The East Coast winters were turning me into a popsicle, and to my horror, my mother sent me a North Face jacket. I’d rather freeze than cover my frilly corsets with something so un-Rococo! So I decided to “Deface the North Face”; to turn a ubiquitous caterpillar into a gaudy, tacky, Technicolor butterfly. Behold.