St. Marks was the place where you would go and find stuff. I was there from 13 to 18. I actually never got off the street until I was 25.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Did you go to school?<\/strong><\/p>\nNo, I’m a dropout. I’m a drug addict dropout.<\/p>\n
Let’s hear it for the dropouts. What made you want to do vintage clothes and jewelry?<\/strong><\/p>\nMy parents are history professors, and so they really instilled this history through objects and this understanding of history with fashion was kind of important from the beginning. And then my family would watch old movies. The 39 Steps was the first movie I saw. We would get a quarter allowance a week, so there was not a lot of money happening, and they instilled this sense of entrepreneurship at a really early age. I started selling on the street when I was 10.<\/p>\n
Vintage clothing then was from when, the ’30s or ’40s ?<\/strong><\/p>\nYou could still get ’30s and ’40s. But actually what was really moving a lot at the time was ’70s because the whole mod look was really happening. There were a lot of black leather jackets from the ’70s.<\/p>\n
And when did you then segue into designing jewelry?<\/strong><\/p>\nWhen I got sober. I started designing, maybe even right before I got sober. I started designing and I was like I don’t want to be finding vintage things. I want to create my own. And I basically used all that knowledge and compressed it into design and quickly got picked up by stores, but I continued selling on the street.<\/p>\n
When did you start doing the jewelry?<\/strong><\/p>\nI think probably at 24. I was in Bendel’s and then Takashimaya, Barneys, Bergdorf\u2019s. It was pretty fast, but I still was selling on the street. I was so into the street. This was 1990. So, I got sober in 1990. So ’94, ’95 was when I stopped selling on the street.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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