Fashion Week Tour - The Secret of Change

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 The secret of change... is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new. 

When I was 21 years old I moved to Irvine, California, for an internship in fashion at OBEY Clothing. I moved across the country with an air mattress, a plastic drawer of clothes and my very small clothing company (a sewing machine and screen printer) with the intent to only be there for 2 months during the summer. My plans changed when I landed a job in skate, surf, snow and was starting to gain momentum in the industry working with large film producers and celebrities in Hollywood and I met someone. My plan was to move to Hollywood when the plan changed again and Boise, Idaho, became the new destination. 

Those of you who have followed my journey know my hesitancy of moving, but my relentless dedication to make it work kept me optimistic. Boise brought a lot of good things like an opportunity to nurture and build a life and me too officially thrive and push the envelope in my business--which is now more than just a sewing machine and screen printer!

After spending years of my early twenties working my face off, building 3 businesses and playing a supporting role to my partner as they built a multimillion dollar business, I've decided that I am ready to embrace a new change that I've been craving since the move. 

A door that has kept opening (and I closing because I am painfully shy) has continued to resurface throughout the years and I decided that now is the time to explore it. Maybe it's a mid-life crisis or a panic, but I have always approached the industry from a designer perspective and am accepted and am pursuing a position as a model!

I am going to be spending the next year traveling for various fashion weeks across the country and world. Business operations will run as usual and I am hoping this will be a good way to network and find myself again. I honestly have no idea what I am expecting, but embracing this leap of faith for whatever may come and at the very least learning more about the industry and myself. 

Change is always hard at first, messy in the middle, but gorgeous in the end. And, as we know, whenever there is an ending--there is a new beginning. 





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