In my early days, fashion was considered a very high risk industry. The failure rate is very high. Trying to get capital and trying to find people who specialize in that industry is very difficult too.
All too often we think of community in terms of being with folks like ourselves: the same class, same race, same ethnicity, same social standing and the like. . I think we need to be wary: we need to work against the danger of evoking something that we don’t challenge ourselves to actually practice.