Avery Truffleman

I realized the message I was sending was like, don't fucking talk to me, you know?

And that was not my goal at all.

It was a more powerful messaging than I realized.

Well, they were definitely like radio people.

Like my mom did live recordings at WNYC and like my dad worked in publicity.

So they were very much like radio station people.

And even though they would like produce programs and they did do journalism sometimes, I don't think they identified as like journalists first and foremost.

They were very much about like

cutting tape with a knife and like smoking cigarettes after midnight and Allen Ginsberg walked in and like WNYC was such a crazy place.

I was like, oh, that I want, I want that.

Like, like that's, that's, that's cool.

It's a cool job.

And I think I fantasized about being like a station person, you know, I was like, oh, I want to help prep the host.

I want to read books for the host and give them questions and cut tape with a knife and do all those things.

I don't think I really had it in... I didn't think that I would necessarily be the one with a microphone making sense of the world this way.

I really thought I'd be like a radio station person.

But I think the idea of fashion...

as something that could be explored really came to me when I went to this museum exhibit about Vivian Westwood.

And I didn't realize that like a designer invented punk clothing.

I was like, whoa, oh my God.