Dude. Can't find anything about the classical celling. But the designing is not so failed - he's been designing commercially for quite some time, so getting aufed isn't the end for him.
http://www.buddytv.com/articles/project-runway/exclusive-interview-suede-of-p-23124.aspx Can you tell me a little bit about your background in fashion design and how you got started?
Wow. Well, I actually fell into fashion design, I wanted to be an actor. My parents were like, “You’re not moving to New York at 17,” so I decided to try fashion and I ended up loving it. Came to New York, interned for Jeffrey Bean and moved into denim pretty quickly, and I’ve done denim for the last 15 years. Launched companies like Fubu, RoccoWear, Jordash Vintage, Lee 1889, Polo Jeans Company, so lots and lots of denim and denim collections. This is kind of a fresh start for me, so it was an amazing, amazing experience.
http://blog.cleveland.com/pdextra/2008/07/kent_state_grad_stephen_whitne.html During his senior year at Normandy High School, Baum had his sights set on moving to the Big Apple as the place to pursue an acting career. Throughout high school, he was active in all the school plays, performed in the show choir and played the cello.
But the thespian life was not to be. Baum's parents -- his father was an engineer for East Ohio Gas and his mother was a physicist for Union Carbide -- wanted him to pursue a more solid line of work.
They agreed to let him try fashion design after a visit to Kent during his senior year of high school piqued his interest.
"I liked what I saw at the fashion design school immediately," Baum says. "I liked the creativity and I thought, 'Why not give it a shot? ' "
The designer who most inspired him at that time was Jean Paul Gaultier, who created Madonna's cone-shaped corset top.
Immediately upon his graduation from Kent in 1995, he moved to New York and got an unpaid internship with Geoffrey Beene, one of the country's pre-eminent designers.
In the nine years since then, Baum has done well for himself -- as his apartment in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood, his 30-acre hideaway in the Catskills and his endowment to Kent State attest.
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http://www.buddytv.com/articles/project-runway/exclusive-interview-suede-of-p-23124.aspx
Can you tell me a little bit about your background in fashion design and how you got started?
Wow. Well, I actually fell into fashion design, I wanted to be an actor. My parents were like, “You’re not moving to New York at 17,” so I decided to try fashion and I ended up loving it. Came to New York, interned for Jeffrey Bean and moved into denim pretty quickly, and I’ve done denim for the last 15 years. Launched companies like Fubu, RoccoWear, Jordash Vintage, Lee 1889, Polo Jeans Company, so lots and lots of denim and denim collections. This is kind of a fresh start for me, so it was an amazing, amazing experience.
http://bloggingprojectrunway.mypodcast.com/2008/09/BPR_Podcast_with_Suede-144828.html
Most awesome:
http://blog.cleveland.com/pdextra/2008/07/kent_state_grad_stephen_whitne.html
During his senior year at Normandy High School, Baum had his sights set on moving to the Big Apple as the place to pursue an acting career. Throughout high school, he was active in all the school plays, performed in the show choir and played the cello.
But the thespian life was not to be. Baum's parents -- his father was an engineer for East Ohio Gas and his mother was a physicist for Union Carbide -- wanted him to pursue a more solid line of work.
They agreed to let him try fashion design after a visit to Kent during his senior year of high school piqued his interest.
"I liked what I saw at the fashion design school immediately," Baum says. "I liked the creativity and I thought, 'Why not give it a shot? ' "
The designer who most inspired him at that time was Jean Paul Gaultier, who created Madonna's cone-shaped corset top.
Immediately upon his graduation from Kent in 1995, he moved to New York and got an unpaid internship with Geoffrey Beene, one of the country's pre-eminent designers.
In the nine years since then, Baum has done well for himself -- as his apartment in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood, his 30-acre hideaway in the Catskills and his endowment to Kent State attest.