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"   Vest and Skirt: Jean Paul Gaultier Most wonder how I can afford designer clothing on a Fashion Assistant&amp;#039;s salary. I have many tricks to achieve total glamour without draining your bank account. A better portion of my clothing collection consists of borrowing from my mother. Growing up in the suburbs of Detroit, most of the other mothers wore floral-motif over-sized sweaters, pastel stir-up pants and bone white lace-up Keds. My mamasita was a little bit more Madonna meets Morticia Addams, showing up to my 3rd grade Ice Cream Social in a Gaultier men&amp;#039;s inspired pin striped suit with an exposed decorative bustier. Better part of the early nineties was spent coming-of-fashion-age and stealing her Gaultier t-shirts that were hand drawn with two bodies intertwined. Naive about the meaning of my graphic and sexually inappropriate tee and an obsession with Madonna&amp;#039;s Erotica album were the first signs that I was not exactly like the other girls on the playground. When my mother found out she forbid me from going into her closet and interrupted the choreographed dance I was putting together to Madonna&amp;#039;s Deeper and Deeper. More recently my mother started top give up some of her better pieces which still look great today-like my dominatrix pinstriped vest and tobacco colored chiffon skirt. Only thing she is still hoarding for herself is that cone bra.  -Malina V. Joseph "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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