A fashion house founder spent 20 years building a successful brand before realizing she never actually loved fashion. She entered the industry partly because of gender expectations, and now argues for flipping the script: stop forcing yourself to love your job and instead build work around what you genuinely love.
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I had a fashion house. I did it for 20 years, but then I realized after 20 years of doing fashion that I never loved fashion. I just did it because I'm a girl, and everyone told me that's what girls should be doing. And I felt like I was cornered into, like, an industry based on my gender, and it was making money, it was doing good. I was doing fashion shows all over the world and catwalks and everything, fashion weeks. But I was like, I'm not happy. Even if it's making money, I'm not happy. You know, I'd rather take that energy and do something I love because I feel like success is. And I've heard that from a friend of mine. He said, don't love your job. Job, your love. So don't. Don't feel. I love that. Yeah. And when he said that to me, that hit me, and I was like, my business is me jobbing my love, basically making my passion my job, like, my own business, my job. And he's like, don't love your job. And, yeah, that hit me, so.