A $2,500 Coat Carried Me Through Depression

Way back.

I have to admit, I have a mother who loves fashion.

She has the most amazing eye when it comes to clothing and jewelry and interiors.

Her aesthetic perspective is so specific.

And I have 100% adopted so much of her style.

I'm actually in an exploration of what is my own style if I didn't have a mother who so specifically influenced me.

And there were the most beautiful and unique and specific shoes, very artistic.

And I look at her and I say, Mom, what are these? And she looks at me.

She looks at the page.

She looks back at me and she says, Oh, darling, those are Miu Miu.

The feeling is of sitting there as a little girl and looking up to the most important woman in my life and have her tell me that these shoes were Miu Miu like it was this secret, this passage of information that woman to girl she was passing down.

It felt like if you know, you know.

Suddenly I was a member of a secret world that I didn't even know existed.

And I stared in awe at these shoes, just thinking to myself, wow, Miu Miu.

To some, that anecdote might seem so small, but to me, I was looking at a page and suddenly there was this world of daydreaming.

There was this world of creativity.

There was this world that went beyond the utilitarian or the functionality of what we should be wearing day to day.

Suddenly there was this Garden of Eden, this Alice in Wonderland, this secret garden that I now knew about because I knew that those shoes were Miu Miu.

Fast forward to my bat mitzvah, choosing all of my bat mitzvah outfits weren't a let's go shopping and pick something you like.

My mom and I created an entire world around it.

I can imagine that this is what photographers and stylists do for editorial.

We looked through magazines.

We came up with things that we were inspired by.

Images, photo shoots.

advertisements and we came across a couple pieces that we were really, really inspired by.

Way back.

I have to admit, I have a mother who loves fashion.

She has the most amazing eye when it comes to clothing and jewelry and interiors.

Her aesthetic perspective is so specific.

And I have 100% adopted so much of her style.

I'm actually in an exploration of what is my own style if I didn't have a mother who so specifically influenced me.

And there were the most beautiful and unique and specific shoes, very artistic.

And I look at her and I say, Mom, what are these? And she looks at me.

She looks at the page.

She looks back at me and she says, Oh, darling, those are Miu Miu.

The feeling is of sitting there as a little girl and looking up to the most important woman in my life and have her tell me that these shoes were Miu Miu like it was this secret, this passage of information that woman to girl she was passing down.

It felt like if you know, you know.

Suddenly I was a member of a secret world that I didn't even know existed.

And I stared in awe at these shoes, just thinking to myself, wow, Miu Miu.

To some, that anecdote might seem so small, but to me, I was looking at a page and suddenly there was this world of daydreaming.

There was this world of creativity.

There was this world that went beyond the utilitarian or the functionality of what we should be wearing day to day.

Suddenly there was this Garden of Eden, this Alice in Wonderland, this secret garden that I now knew about because I knew that those shoes were Miu Miu.

Fast forward to my bat mitzvah, choosing all of my bat mitzvah outfits weren't a let's go shopping and pick something you like.

My mom and I created an entire world around it.

I can imagine that this is what photographers and stylists do for editorial.

We looked through magazines.

We came up with things that we were inspired by.

Images, photo shoots.

advertisements and we came across a couple pieces that we were really, really inspired by.