At the time it really was the social women, the society ladies. There were the cool girls, like Aerin Lauder - everyone loved to see what Aerin was w…

- Roopal Patel

What we considered to be so much part of our everyday fashion vocabulary today, where we see all these designers restarting with these big houses, wa…

- Roopal Patel

Tom Ford just started at Gucci and was getting great notoriety - like Madonna wearing that head-to-toe velvet suit at the MTV awards. I remember it l…

- Roopal Patel

Fashion Week was at Bryant Park and there were a few shows like Marc Jacobs, or when Alexander McQueen came to town, that were offsite, Helmut [Lung]…

- Roopal Patel

I had a very different vibe then, I was very into minimalism. I was kind of obsessed with Helmut Lang and [Martin] Margiela.

- Roopal Patel

I feel like fashion was much more exclusive. There weren't as many parties. There weren't as many social gatherings. It wasn't required that designer…

- Roopal Patel

Calvin Klein and Donna Karan were the big American names at that point in time, Helmut [Lung] was the cool kid on the block and you had Marc Jacobs a…

- Roopal Patel

I went to Bergdorf Goodman as an assistant in the fashion office and that was really my first exposure into the world of retail. Dawn Mello was presi…

- Roopal Patel

There weren't paparazzi standing outside. There weren't all these photographers. People really didn't know what fashion was and what was happening in…

- Roopal Patel