After hearing Kelly Cutrone speak, I felt a new spark of energy inside of me that seems to have been hiding for a long time. I admire her sass, spunkiness, confidence, independence, and love for her career. Overall, she is just a woman I aspire to be like because she has many traits that I feel like I lack. She inspires me mostly because she said how she went through a stage where she couldn’t truly find herself, which is what I feel like I may be going through now, and that empowers me to push through the hard times.
There’s always that point in a persons’ life where he or she needs to find himself or herself and I feel I’m going through mine. She said that the most vital, influential part in her life was once she found herself. She went through a variety of little part time jobs, her one small nursing job before quitting, and many other obstacles before she finally became the successful self-assured woman she is today. She even had to go through one of the hardest times when she had to couch surf through New York City before finally being able to get out in the world financially. I think those types of events that make Cutrone the snotty, straight-up person she is today, and personally I think that she deserves it one hundred percent.
Another statement that Cutrone said that made me aspire to be like her was when she said, “Being normal won’t get you anywhere, but lying will get you f****** far!” I find it hilarious how she used cheating the system to make herself successful, and how she encourages it now. I feel like many people who I have heard of becoming rich and successful have cheated the system one way or another, but say nothing about it. On the other hand, Cutrone takes full responsibility for doing so and even says how she is proud of it. Yes, she may be a big “b****y,” and a little pushy, but that’s because she has worked for everything she has, and went from being nothing, to the huge fashion sensation she is today.
Overall, I admire Kelly Cutrone as not only a fashion legend, but also as a person. She was nothing but honest, and was more than willing to help everyone who came to her speech. My friends and I approached her and she welcomed us with opened arms, encouraging us to ask as many questions as we’d like. Her performance over all shocked me, because if it wasn’t because of this class, I wouldn’t have wanted to attend a person’s speech who I saw on the TV as such a rude, bad-mannered individual. I’m more than happy I went to her speech because she is nothing like the woman I saw in the Hills or in the City. She truly inspired me to move to the city next summer and apply for jobs until I get hired.
For those of you who didn’t see Kelly, here’s a video of her on Chelsea Lately.
