Rachel
Rachel on the Go!
by:Rachel Ulloa
One on one with designer
Jane Suttell
The day of the interview I was detective Rachel
Ulloa and my goal
as a blogger and
writer is to let my
readers know who
you are wearing
(flashback…and
much love to the
late, GREAT comedian and fashionista Joan Rivers,
who changed the
red carpet forever
by asking celebrities the famous
question: “Who
are you wearing?”)…and the
day of my inter
view I am glad to
say I was wearing
Jane Suttell.
Of course I had to start the interview off by asking Jane who she
is wearing, and of course she was wearing designer Jane Suttell.
Coco Chanel could not have said it better when she said: “A girl
should be two things, classy and fabulous.” And, I must add, we
both looked classy and fabulous because we were both wearing
Jane Suttell! She told me how she loves colors and even though
people tend to make more things in black, color means happy to
her..and I can’t agree more, Jane!
At what age did you know that you wanted to be a
designer?
Well (laugh) I grew up with my Barbie dolls I think by age 11
(laugh) I decided but my mother didn’t sew and so I really learned
to sew from my mother’s friends and in Junior High School because in those days they were teaching home ec.
Did you go to school for fashion?
I did and I didn’t. Once I learned to sew I had a really wonderful
grandmother who lived in New England and I was at the west
coast and in those years there was all these mills in New England
and she will go to the mill and buy all this fabric really inexpensively and will put it in the box and send it to me so like at age 12
and 13 I will go to the local dime store and buy patterns and come
home and cut things up.
I didn’t always finish things if I got to a point and did not understand it or I got uninterested I will just put it in the drawer and my
mother never said anything and she told me later that she didn’t
say anything because she did not know how to sew so she felt
very nonjudgemental.