When one reads about people who have experienced tremendous amounts of success, they all tend to have some things in common. Usually, one of these things is that they all have some kind of rebellious streak in them. Quite simply, they are their own person, and have always been.
Lisa Love, the west coast editor of Teen Vogue USA ran away from home when she was 15 to go to Paris because she wanted to change her life. Nuclear Wintour is rumoured to have gone missing for a week whilst having a sizzling romance with Bob Marley and Kelly Cutrone (the creator of People’s Revolution) was the fashion producer who in 2002 on September 11th had more shows on than anyone else at New York Fashion Week as she wanted to celebrate life and beauty instead of mourning.
Katie Grand, the editor of Pop Magazine, who also styles for Loewe, Louis Vuitton and who was responsible for Bottega Vennetta’s newly acquired edge some years ago, just simply decided as an 11-year old she wanted to be “cool” and Karla Otto, the woman behind the PR of a large number of big fashion names used to be a supermodel in her early days.
There just is not any wonder that fashion can be celebrated as it was meant to when there is a world of high powered and passionate people behind the scenes who truly understand designers, how fashion and art is inspired by society and people and how much this is appreciated by mere mortals too.