Jazzi McG » new york times http://www.jazzimcg.com/blog A twenty-something freelance creative type, Jazzi is making a path via hard work, big heels, & bigger dreams — and a résumé worth bragging rights. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:16:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Amen. http://www.jazzimcg.com/blog/inspiration/amen/ http://www.jazzimcg.com/blog/inspiration/amen/#comments Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:32:37 +0000 Jazzi http://www.jazzimcg.com/blog/?p=770 Leave it to Cathy Horyn to speak some truth about the state of fashion and the industry, or to find someone who can.  Enter: Louise Wilson.  I wholeheartedly agree with most of her criticisms, and of course, have been guilty of some of them at times too.  I could quote all my favorite parts, but that would essentially be the entire piece, so it makes more sense for you to go read it yourself. Here are a few choice excerpts:

“For years, fashion wasn’t fashionable. Today fashion is so fashionable that it’s almost embarrassing to say you’re part of fashion.”

[Newcomers] do the work so well, and so diligently, but who cares? There are loads of people already doing it. They take no risks about anything, not even the way they go up against the industry or show their clothes. It’s all about being professional.”

“You’re never going to have all the skills but you have to have a skill…It’s not [all] about working hard. It’s about feeling sick and waiting for the idea and not knowing what to do but making sure you have the skills so that when you do get the idea, you can do it without relying on other people.”

“It might be very good for fashion if fashion goes out of fashion, and maybe nothing does happen for awhile and a few companies shut down. When the light turns away that’s when the new work will be done.”

Louise Wilson, interviewed by Cathy Horyn for The New York Times

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