This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. I was reading something a day or two ago about Barney's. I used to be a clothing salesman at Barney's.

And I used to wait on actors and the models

and what have you.

And Tom Ford. have you would have

and Tom Ford, yeah he was with Ford modeling agency and he would periodically come in and he would be a model. And being the

mercenary that I was at that point, I said how much is it pay? $40 an hour. What? So I went out and I got a portfolio put it together and I think it was black

not black beauty. Grace Del Marco, modeling Anderson,

on 42nd Street.

And I got with them. What Tom failed to tell me that $40 an hour wasn't a 40 hour

a week. I started doing Sears, Montgomery Ward, catalog, that was the basic that was the what's the word the foundation if you will.

Then I started getting liquor ads,

but I was still working at Barney's 17th Street.

I found out that Ebony magazine was doing a hiring people for the Emmy fashion show and I auditioned and I got the job and went to Chicago I lied is it you know have you done runway modeling. Of course. Go to Chicago and for the wardrobe whatnot. was, that's back when they were doing 79 cities in 90 days.

On the bus. That. That was singularly the largest most fun experience in my only career.

I didn't know what Runweight was about and we had a kind of a dress rehearsal in Gary Indiana.

And I remember watching the girls go out and did it halfway down they did turn around and went to the end of the ramp turn turn around, I can do that, but I can't do it the way they do it.

And to this day I don't know what I did, when I went out the place went crazy and for years after I

can remember going around the country doing promos or whatever and people would say I

I know you did shaft but I remember you from the Ebony Fashion Fair.

Oh, you're muted.

Okay, unmute, unmute, good morning.

Good morning. Good everything. Everything. Good everything.

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