The wars in the world are outward manifestations of the war that rages inside each of us; charity & change truly begin at home.

Top 10 Career Don’ts. [or, how not to get a career in fashion]

#10. Don’t cry in the office. EVER. If you have to cry, go outside.

Top 10 Career Don’ts. [or, how not to get a career in fashion]

#9. Do not think your boss owes you anything other than your paycheck.

Top 10 Career Don’ts. [or, how not to get a career in fashion]

#8. Do not overemphasize your nationality or gender as a way of making a point. You may be a gay man, but you still have no right to wear a skirt and twirl around in the middle of the day proclaiming you’re kind of the fairies. And if you’re from San Francisco and a closet Zappatista, that does not give you the right to play Rage Against the Machine and scream out che slogans.

Top 10 Career Don’ts. [or, how not to get a career in fashion]

#7. Do not try to re-create your family at work.

Top 10 Career Don’ts. [or, how not to get a career in fashion]
#6. If you’re going to be a helper around the office and do things you know your boss wants done – for me that means sweeping the floor and taking out the garbage – don’t jump up and give her a play-by-play each time you finish a task. She knows.
Don’t underestimate her radar in her own environment.

Top 10 Career Don’ts. [or, how not to get a career in fashion]

#5. Don’t call in sick when you’re not. At Peoples Revolution we give employees the dignity of 5 personal days a year. I instituted this policy so that I would never have to begin my morning listening to sad stories & faux-raspy voices about not feeling good enough to make it to the office that day.

Top 10 Career Don’ts. [or, how not to get a career in fashion]

#4. Don’t expect equal rights in the workplace without being willing to do equal work, which includes transporting heavy garment bags, loading and unloading Fedex and UPS shipments, and rolling racks of clothing down New York City’s uneven sidewalks. People’s Revolution is an equal-opportunity employer.

Top 10 Career Don’ts. [or, how not to get a career in fashion]

#3. Don’t roll your eyes. Or if you do, roll them toward the exit sign and then head out the door.

Top 10 Career Don’ts. [or, how not to get a career in fashion]

#2. Do not Facebook the owner of a company or any prospective boss. Or if you do, make sure you have something interesting and out-of-the-box to say that warrants her two minutes; don’t just reveal that you went to college and took a resume writing class.

Top 10 Career Don’ts. [or, how not to get a career in fashion]

#1. Don’t send a resume in May hoping to get hired in the fashion business, as it’s the slowest time of the year. To increase your chances of securing a top-level job, try January or August.

The Empowered Girls’ Guide to Dressing for Work:

When threatened, a female wolf will attack. She’s not going to say, “Oh I’m spiritual, come on in! Do you want to sleep with my mate? Do you want to steal my babies?”

When my employees make a mistake, I want them to fix the problem as quickly as possible and move on.

You can learn a lot during the late hours in an office,

From what you want in your marriage to how to put together a great pitch to when you should use a semicolon.

Getting good at something requires consistency & repetition.

There is no other way. With few exceptions, you will get out what you put in.

When I promote my assistants, I usually take them shopping for a duvet cover and some 800-thread-count sheets because, as a fashion publicist, I joke that their bed will quickly become their favorite place on earth.

I insist in my business on breaking down the barriers erected by technology and actually talking to other people.

Kelly Cutrone gives good phone!

There will be days when, regardless of what you do and how much you love it, you’ll be disgusted and/or exhausted by it.

Once you have set out on this intuitive journey of dream-inspired self-discovery, you must eventually FOCUS.

When you find something that feels right, concentrate on refining your skills and educating yourself about your chosen field.

If you allow fear to live inside of you after you’ve already put it to any possible good use, if you allow your mind, instead of your soul, to drive your car, you risk more than just finding yourself on a hamster wheel. You also increase the possibility that you’ll manifest that fear and negative thinking outwardly.

The spirit of a warrior is not geared to indulging and complaining, nor is it geared to winning or losing.
The spirit of a warrior is geared only to the struggle, and every struggle is a warrior’s last battle on earth.

Not even the slickest wordsmith or spinning spin master can describe the delight and dedication which is motherhood.

This is a secret society which words cannot touch, but the heart holds dear.

The truth is that we’re not more or less powerful than men; we are partners with men and have an equally important role to play in the progression of the universe.

“Over the years I have learned that what is important about a dress is the woman who is wearing it.” -Yves Saint-Laurent

“He’s always asking: ‘Is that new? I haven’t seen that before’. It’s like, why don’t you mind your own business? Solve world hunger. Get out of my closet.” – Michelle Obama

The diving is demanding we become proactive to stop the suffering of humanity.

I am a Karmayogi-someone who becomes conscious of herself and the Divine through work.

Take the years when you’re young- say, between the ages of 15&35, before you have a mortgage or kids or anything else that needs to be fed- and go balls out on intuition and follow your dreams.

I learned that you have to give up your life as you know it to get a new one: that sometimes you need to let go of everything you’re clinging to and start over, whether it’s because you’ve outgrown it or because it’s not working anymore, or because it was wrong for you in the first place.

It took me years to really learn to silence my mind. But as you move through your career and your life, you will have to learn that if you’re not what you do, then what you do has no business keeping you entertained at night.

The only dream I ever had was the dream of New York itself, and for me, from the minute I touched down in this city, that was enough. It became the best teacher I ever had.

PLEASE help @PETA & Canadian Senator Mac Harb end the annual slaughter of baby seals: http://bit.ly/Rz4NSR

When you leave home to follow your dreams, your road will probably be riddled with potholes, not always paved in happy technicolor bricks.

I believe all women know in their heart of hearts that they truly are DIVINE AND MAGICAL even if they’ve temporarily forgotten.

Sometimes in life seasons don’t come in order; instead of Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer, we get three winters in a row, but that doesn’t mean Spring won’t come eventually.

Don’t Blend In.

People who are making a difference in the world, are not like everyone else.

I’m a really big believer that we all have this voice inside of us, and that voice is God talking to us, and we are all magical, and we all have something as specific to do as our fingerprint. And everybody should go out and do that.

Average people love to be average, because nobody bothers them.

The majority of the most successful people in the fashion industry aren’t from wealthy families, or born into the industry. They’re kids who had a dream and made it happen.

One of the great things about making my own money, is that I’ve always been able to fuck who I wanted, not who I thought would marry me or take me shopping.

“No matter how rich we are, as long as we are not prepared to be compassionate towards the poor, we are truly living in utter poverty. Such people are the true destitutes in the eyes of God.”

-Amma

I believe the divine particularly likes to infiltrate pop culture. And when it’s interpreted properly in pop culture, whether in Schindler’s List, Wings of Desire, Devi, or Charitable Anthems by Bob Geldof and Quincy Jones, it’s unforgettable.

Whoever said less is more was right:

The less bullshit and frivolity you have in your life, the more attention you have to focus on what is really going on.

“The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make innocent guilty and guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.”

-Malcolm X