My parents had a factory, so I was linked to the textile and fashion industry.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My father was an engineer working for a textile company that had several factories scattered in rural towns in the southern part of Japan.
My parents noticed my love for clothes and encouraged me to study design abroad. I decided to join the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York but never ended up there.
My father was a tailor, my mother a machinist.
My family was in two businesses - they were in the textile business, and they were in the candy business. The conversations around the dinner table were all about the factory floor and how many machines were running and what was happening in the business. I grew up very engaged in manufacturing and as part of a family business.
I started in college as a business major and finally transferred to home economics and studied making clothes.
My mother was a housewife. My father was a garment worker.
I grew up in a miniature village in the middle of the countryside in England, quite secluded from the outside world. I was always enamored by the fashion industry.
So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor.
My mother was a fashion designer, and my father was a model.
My parents are famously not part of the gestalt of the fashion industry.