I was flipping through the pages of my high school magazine, because just like any good high school, they believe you still want to know what's going on after you graduate, and I stumbled upon an article about New York Fashion designer Derek Lam who just happens to be a fellow alumnus. Derek Lam is an incredibly talented and esteemed fashion designer who helped design for Michael Kors before starting his own line and becoming Creative Director for Tod’s, a company specializing in leather goods, best known for its D-bag. This guy has quite the impressive resume and it doesn’t hurt that we share the prestigious Wildcat heritage. In the article, written by Annie Wilson, another alumnus and fellow blogger (check out her blog Poetic & Chic), Mr. Lam discusses the powerful influence San Francisco has on him that inspired him to create his line, “the myth of the west”, an interpretation of the colonization of the Wild West and how people from the East created an entirely new culture that has lasted to this day. This idea really resonated with me because I feel incredibly lucky to be living in an area of such creativity and personal identification where all forms of creativity are freely encouraged and I have seen this first hand with the creation of Rude Etiquette and how much support we have received from outside sources. It’s truly inspirational to see someone like Derek Lam doing what he loves to do and sharing his passion with others so successfully, and I can only hope that Rude Etiquette can be as successful and certainly makes me proud to be a native San Franciscan.
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