![]() ![]() I was working in theater at the Los Angeles Theater Center. What was your first job you got a paycheck for? I can properly hem those.” But he’s like, “Nope.” He doesn’t want me to touch them. I say to him, “Do you want me to hem those. My father used to do that to hem my jeans. I may have been cutting those little strings off as they walked onto the stage, but it worked. I made a lot of the clothes myself for “Raisin in the Sun,” and a lot of the hems didn’t get finished. We did “A Raisin in the Sun,” “The Sty of the Blind Pig” and all these classics. ![]() When I started getting accolades for what I was doing at school. When did you realize it could be a career? I was a theater major, but we didn’t have anyone teaching costume design. I was auditioning for a play that I didn’t get, and the director said, “You can try doing costumes if you want.” I went to the library to look up what a costume designer was. I actually didn’t know what a costume designer was until I was a sophomore. When did you first say, “I want to be a costume designer”? But when I finished it, I was like, “I’m not wearing that thing.” My neighbor Tommy, who was a small man, was like, “I’ll wear it, Ruth.” He wore that thing all the time. ![]() I made a patchwork blazer by cutting up a lot of my jeans. What was one of the first things your designed? ![]()
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