Assistants Quote by Roopal Patel
“I went to Bergdorf Goodman as an assistant in the fashion office and that was really my first exposure into the world of retail. Dawn Mello was president at the time and she had just left Gucci where she found Tom Ford.”
![“Calvin Klein and Donna Karan were the big American names at that point in time, Helmut [Lung] was the cool kid on the block and you had Marc Jacobs and John Galliano who starting the revival of the old fashion houses.” quote by Roopal Patel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/302/roopal-patel-38852_bigs_calvin-klein-and-donna-karan-were-the-bi_254386.jpg)
![“What we considered to be so much part of our everyday fashion vocabulary today, where we see all these designers restarting with these big houses, was just beginning then [in the 90th].” quote by Roopal Patel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e24/roopal-patel-38852_big-houses_what-we-considered-to-be-so-much-part-of_1092715.jpg)
![“Fashion Week was at Bryant Park and there were a few shows like Marc Jacobs, or when Alexander McQueen came to town, that were offsite, Helmut [Lung] was offsite, but it was very intimate. It wasn't the way it is today where you have a thousand people at the show. You may have had 200 to 250 and…” quote by Roopal Patel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/131/roopal-patel-38852_fashion_fashion-week-was-at-bryant-park-and-ther_1531085.jpg)
![“I had a very different vibe then, I was very into minimalism. I was kind of obsessed with Helmut Lang and [Martin] Margiela.” quote by Roopal Patel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8f7/roopal-patel-38852_different_i-had-a-very-different-vibe-then-i-was-v_2433024.jpg)
![“At the time it really was the social women, the society ladies. There were the cool girls, like Aerin Lauder - everyone loved to see what Aerin was wearing. Carolyn Bessette was very much in that time period. Calvin [Kleine] was very influential in the '90s.” quote by Roopal Patel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8da/roopal-patel-38852_cool-girl_at-the-time-it-really-was-the-social-wom_3072122.jpg)
![“Well, that would be a title [the busiest guy in Hollywood] still reserved for Ryan Seacrest. I have one assistant; he has about nine. I don't have a food taster yet, I don't have a fluffer either. But, yes there are some days when I don't know if I am coming or going.” quote by Joel McHale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/210/joel-mchale-8254_assistants_well-that-would-be-a-title-the-busiest-g_72338.jpg)
![“Remember, this is back in the '40s, and the idea of a museum being a place where interested people could come in direct contact with works hadn't arrived on the scene yet. That, I think, I first ran into at the Freer Gallery in Washington, D.C., where a man named Marty [Martin] Amt decided that he…” quote by Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ddb/warren-mackenzie-4654_assistants_remember-this-is-back-in-the-40s-and-the_105550.jpg)
