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About
| After graduating from Baylor University with a degree in Fashion Design in May 2001 I said good-bye to my friends and family in Texas, packed little Honda Civic and headed to Los Angeles to pursue my fashion design career. I had high aspirations of where my talents would take me and how fast it would take to get to where I wanted to be.
Through the years I have discovered that it takes much more than talent to get you where you want to be. Patience, persistence, and perseverance are needed to survive in this industry we call “fashion”. So much of this industry is about who you know and good timing. My undying drive for success and my passion for fashion as cliché as it sounds is what keeps me striving to get to the top and never losing hope that I will be there someday. From August of 2001 to June of 2008 I could not seem to find a home in this industry. There didn’t really seem to be a time when I wasn’t looking for a better job or pursuing a company that I wanted to be a part of. I had high hopes for every job I took, hoping it would be what I was looking for. Everything always fell short of my expectations, whether it was being hired under false pretenses or being laid off due to unforeseen circumstances that never pertained to my abilities as a designer. Whatever the case may have been, I was forced to continue on my search, sometimes employed but mostly unemployed looking for a new opportunity. I felt the combination of jumping from job to job and lack of having big name companies on my resume made it difficult to get an interview at a big name company. This routine got old, very old and often depressing. My ideal time line to success seemed to be passing me by. It seemed that when I was close to getting a job that I really wanted someone with more years of experience was chosen over me, even though I had more talent and fresh ideas to contribute. I was beginning to think was cursed with bad luck and the streak seemed it would never end especially with the continual stream of dishonest people in the industry I had would come in contact with. In June 2008 I thought my bad luck had finally ended forever when I started my own line called PSYCE with a business partner I had meet through an industry contact. I was accepted into the New York Coterie show in Sept of 2008 to show my Spring 2009 premiere collection. The reaction to my line was amazing and the sales were outstanding especially for a brand new line. I had stores from all over the world buying PSYCE which was really exciting. Unexpectedly the economy took a turn for the worse and my line, PSYCE is on hold for now. So this is where I stand today, back again on my search looking for the next opportunity that will lead to the fulfillment of my dream of being a world renowned fashion designer. |
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