Growing up in the 80's, I remember tagging along to my much taller sister's modeling castings in NYC. Ralph Lauren fashion campaigns adorned my bedroom walls even as a preteen. I recall long afternoons on my Queens, NY stoop flipping through the top fashion mags just to see the newest models and poses. Although my idea of beauty has changed over the years, I often look to fashion as inspiration for my work today... BTW on one of those casting calls we got stuck in a very rickety elevator... still to this day I hesitate to get in one.