![]() At the end of the day, we just wanted happy feet. Eventually, we just called Rocket Dog so that we could make some that would be a great fit for everyone. Then when I became a stylist, I started customizing them for my celebrity clients. I would watch the celebrities take their shoes off and walk barefoot so I would offer them the shoes. They would be so happy because it was like they were walking on marshmallows. Then once they had their pictures taken, they could slip these on. and no one could move by the end of it! Their feet were swollen, and they hurt so bad that I started ordering high wedge flip-flops for under their dresses. ![]() and be standing on their feet until 2 a.m. All the women that I worked with would be dressed at 3 p.m. Many years ago, when I was working at Vanity Fair, we would host the Oscar party after the awards. TV: What inspired you to work with Rocket Dog to bring back the platform sandal?ĮS: Well, it came from a very innocent place. You have to ask questions and listen to the answers. You have to understand that the fashion industry is amazing, but it's work, a lot of work. To get somewhere you have to work and you have to be hungry. Though I use the word "luck" a lot, I worked to get there. A few years later, I was offered a job at Vogue as an assistant, and I was blown away. I worked hard to prove and was offered a job in Milan on the design team. Eventually, I got offered a job at Armani at their first store. I started at this really cool store in New York City folding clothes. At the time, the only job I could get was in retail, so I started at the bottom of the heap, and I worked and worked and socialized my way in as far as I could. But I just really wanted to do it on my own. My mom was in fashion my dad was an interior designer. However, I was so fortunate to have incredibly supportive parents who, while they were very disappointed when I didn't go to college, still supported my dream. I quickly found out that you had to do math, and I wasn't great at it. ![]() It was so long ago! The truth of the matter is that I wasn't equipped to do what I needed to do to follow what I thought was my dream: architecture.
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