I went to an amazing school in Brooklyn called St. Anne's that's a really kind of creative hot bed.
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I finished high school there and then I went to Rhode Island School of Design.
My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn.
And then we moved to New Jersey and I went to the Art Students League.
Brooklyn is kind of my writer's retreat.
Brooklyn, when I was growing up, was awesome. It was stoopball and stickball - a lot of kids... the baby boom generation were all in the area. It was just a really great place.
I got a New York designer to build my dream store here, which is a little bit of Florence in New York. It's like the Duomo on Madison. I got inspired by Santa Maria Novella and all the Renaissance architecture.
There's a high school in Camden, New Jersey, I call the Jill Scott School. It's the Camden Creative Arts High School. Those teachers and kids are so passionate about what they do, and 98 percent of the senior class went on to college.
I used to go to school in Manhattan with a bunch of the City Kids.
I grew up a little north of New York City and went to high school at Regis, an all-boys tuition-free high school in Manhattan.
I adore my apartment in New York. It was a ballroom that I remade, so it's like a loft but done by Louis the Fifteenth.