When you leave home to follow your dreams, your road will probably be riddled with potholes, not always paved in happy Technicolor bricks. You'll probably be kicked to the ground 150 million times and told you're nuts by friends and strangers alike. As you progress you may feel lonely or terrified for your physical and emotional safety. You may overestimate your own capabilities or fail to live up to them, and you'll surely fall flat on your face once in a while.
Kelly CutroneI would never rep Versace. I can't stand her. I think she makes disgusting clothes. Calvin [Klein] is like, snore! Who wears Calvin Klein? I'm not dissing him. I think he's built an amazing, respectable business, but I would never want to work for Calvin Klein, ever.
Kelly CutroneYou have to be prepared for people to hate you. Average people love to be average, because nobody bothers them.
Kelly CutroneIn breaking away from the familiar and the expected, you'll be forced and privileged to face greater challenges, learn harder lessons, and really get to know yourself.
Kelly CutroneI hope that you, too, will choose to have a journey instead of just a life. Actually, I hope it's a full on expedition.
Kelly CutroneThe whole thing about magazines is that, magazines are going to become deeper and more tutorial, and the nature of the magazine is going to change.
Kelly CutroneWell digital media and social media are eliminating the middle man - in the old days, you had to go through the editors. Or the television producer, you know? Now you have people talking directly to each other, globally who have never met. I think you put the "word" in "word of mouth."
Kelly Cutrone