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"Jean Paul Gaultier sat down with Opening Ceremony last week to reflect on his 35 years in the fashion business, and they got to talking about his brief stint as an 80s pop star. Yes gals, he had a hit called &amp;quot;How To Do That&amp;quot; (and a video starring Naomi Campbell!) which got me thinking about the many odd jobs other fashion designers have had... Yes my lady loves, this is fashion&amp;#x27;s enfant terrible sketching to a soundtrack of his own voice. As he told Opening Ceremony&amp;#x27;s Humberto Leon, &amp;quot;I sold around 30,000 records - almost made it to the Top 50, but I think that was my last foray into the music business as a musician. I prefer to dress the stars.&amp;quot; Bloody brilliant, huh? So who else has had &amp;quot;oh no they didn&amp;#x27;t!&amp;quot; career moments before making it big on the runway? 1. Vera Wang, figure skater. Before she was the go-to gal for wedding gowns, Vera Wang was an editor at Vogue. And before that, she was a professional ice skater! She competed at the 1968 U.S. figure skating championships and even attempted to make the Olympic team (which may explain why she and Evan Lysacek are BFFs). 2. Giorgio Armani, M.D. Lady Gaga&amp;#x27;s wild stage wardrobe would never have included Armani if the designer had stuck with his original career path. He spent two years in medical school before he was called into service, and his time spent at a military hospital convinced him he didn&amp;#x27;t want to be a doctor, after all. 3. Diane Von Furstenberg, princess. Okay, so technically it&amp;#x27;s not a &amp;quot;job,&amp;quot; but long before the world was swooning over Kate Middleton, DVF was royalty. She married Prince Egon Von Furstenberg in 1969 and became a princess before she became a fashion superstar. 4. Miuccia Prada, mime. Sure this one takes the cake for the strangest!? The brilliantly creative mind behind Prada actually spent six years in mime school before she launched her label. She once told CNN, &amp;quot;In those years, the late sixties, the seventies, you wanted to do anything that was strange or different or eccentric. So that looked to me the most strange thing I could possibly do.&amp;quot; And how! 5. Vivienne Westwood, schoolteacher. How much more fun would elementary school have been with Dame Vivienne Westwood as your teacher? So, gals...which of these designers&amp;#x27; past careers surprised you the most? If you ever became a big name in the fashion world, what would be people be surprised to learn about your employment past? Share! More Ways to Get Glamour: NEW! Now You Can Read Glamour on Flipboard! Get the latest fashion updates via Twitter on @glamour_fashion Check our chic Tumblr! Read Glamour magazine on your iPad&amp;amp;#8212;print subscribers, it&amp;amp;#8217;s now part of your subscription plan! Like freebies? Enter the latest Glamour sweepstakes! Sign up for our fashion and beauty newsletters to get easy style tips (it&amp;#x27;ll make your inbox 10x sexier, we promise). And, did you know you can read glamour.com on your smart phone?! It&amp;amp;#8217;s the ultimate boredom buster. Want even more STF? Follow us on Twitter! Latest Tweets!Follow us on Twitter!jQuery(&amp;quot;.blog-tweets&amp;quot;).tweet({username:[&amp;quot;glamour_fashion&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;cindi_leive&amp;quot;], count: 3});"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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