Molly Rogers

And in the back of my mind, I was like, I'm going to meet that lady one day.

There was something in that small little article that made me go to New York.

And the day I landed in New York, Friday the 13th, July 1984, if my memory is correct, very witchy also.

I walked over to Pat's store on 8th Street and I walked in.

I had a paper dress on and dreadlocks.

And my Southern accent.

So it was all twisted and warped.

And she was in there with Mary Paul, who some people probably don't know, but she's a French stylist who styled Madonna in 84 in the beginning.

And they were looking at rubber bracelets, which Madonna made a trend, a huge trend.

I remember being so...

I'm sure she was standing there with two cigarettes lit and Mary Paul.

And it was a tough crowd.

And there I was, my little paper dress on and my accent.

Who knows what I seemed like to them.

But I introduced myself and asked her for a job.

And she was like, do you know how to fold T-shirts?

And I was like, well, I don't know, but I could try.

And she said, well, there's Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat T-shirts in the back.

Those two guys had made some T-shirts for Pat.

And go back there and fold them for me.