Which is why what you do works. Its challenging but its not...self-deluded that "Fashion is Art'

Well you have to have a blend of the art and the business. There're days when I'll sit there and I'll fight for fashion as art to the death.Then there're other days when I'm sitting there and I'm thinking" God,I gotta sell something." (laughter).I am disappointed though that we can't develop the underground designers out of New York. And I think that my goal for the next year is going to be to try to do something about that.I think we should be showing before Europe, just for the common business sense.Lets forget about the "who's-ripping-off-European- designers"  conversation which is too boring, I'm just thinking  production-wise. More often than not, we have to order the fabrics from Europe, it takes longer for it to get on over here...it has to sit in customs for at least 10 days. If anybody in the production end of the business should be showing first it should be the United States. That's my battle cry for the next coupla years. I'm really ready to push that. I think that whether you think the US is derivative of this or derivative of that is neither here nor there. But just in terms of, "How can the United States develop that type of designer that is internationally recognized, one of the ways that we can take that step is just simply to show first. That's it!