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Mind Over Matter
Sunday, Jan 20, 2008 11:54PM / Standard Entry / Members only
As I wrap up Busting Loose from the Money Game (not solely about money), by Robert Scheinfeld I realize that I have spent the last couple of weeks pondering life, reading lots of book on this subject by an array of authors. Its amazing to come across so many people who have so many profound bits of wisdom to spread to the world. Then I often wonder why the millions of our children are not taught this information right from the start. Is the Fibonacci sequence, the correct grammar and the formula for a carbon compound going to bring the same quality of life as we experience hardships?…I for one would have dealt with my first heartbreak with a much lighter tone if I had seen how everything is perfect and how we were not meant to be as we were not communicating in terms of what is high value to one another. Plus no one or nothing is ever missing we are just not seeing where it is.
I have also noticed that there are many restrictions, which we put upon ourselves, not fully allowing us to enjoy our infinitely abundant and creative selves, most of these stem from the power of words. Does anyone really know what these string of letters attached mean? Humans tend to cover up the mystery with a label as it makes us feel safe but it is actually to the contrary word imprison us stopping our natural flow.
You would have thought women spend more time thinking about life and its details but surprisingly all the books I read recently are by men, Robert, John, Eckert…but then again many great leaders were and are men, great fashion designers, architects, etc are all men. From this us I believe that it is not our role as women to mimic men but rather give them the love that they need to support them on their journeys.
As globalization sweeps us away I believe that “re-humanization” is also occurring at a similar speed, as more and more of us are becoming aware of what really is going on in this illusion we call earth.
What an illusion it is? Thus…would love to express appreciation for all the holograms in my illusion.
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My Journey....
Saturday, Jan 5, 2008 3:32PM / Standard Entry / Members only
On the 4th of November 1982, my story began in the city of Kolkota also known as the city of joy. The former capital of India which has long been known for its literary, artistic and revolutionary heritage. After spending the first five years of my life in India, my family migrated to Hong Kong, which is where I lived for most of my childhood years. Luckily I had the opportunity to study abroad and spent my college days in New York. This is when I decided that the world of fashion is what I wanted to partake in. Thus to pursue this I moved to London to explore the opportunities it had to offer. After living, working and completing my masters there I decided to return to Hong Kong and live my dream of start a high end women’s wear label - Kanchan Couture.
My identity is that of a hybrid world, influenced by all the people whom I have encountered in my life, the places I have visited and the cultures I have been exposed to. Being brought up by Indian parents their more traditional values were ingrained into me since a young age, thus my Asian roots have been one of the major influences of my design concept.
For me making the decision to start my own business has to be one of the hardest choices I have made, but also one of the greatest. When starting up young entrepreneurs often face a lot of negativity and pressure about age, experience etc. Not denying that it is extremely competitive and often takes years to build a name and make a profit, if it is really what you want, then you just have to be brave, take a risk, go out there and not come back till you have got it. The entrepreneur Sam Roddick once said to me <<If you know what you want then you need to be bold, take risks and just be ridiculous!!>>. Being passionate for what you do and taking risks are the two key values I instill upon my business.
I would like to leave you with a quote that inspires me daily:
<<I want to live deep and suck all the marrow of life to live so sturdily and sparten-like as to pout to rout all that was not life, to cut broad swath and shave close to dive life into a corner and reduce to its lowest terms and if it proved to be mean then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it and publish its meanness to the world, or if it were sublime to know it by experience>>
-- Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862)
The world is yours to fashion!
