." I felt like I had actually carried out all the threads I could do," she claims. "The rest of my industry finally started mentioning, 'Hmm, we do have a diversity complication.' I seemed like, 'Okay, my work is done. I moved the needle. What's following?'" By February 2023, she started ideating what ended up being Haute Culture. (That had not been her only professional switch: She is actually currently going for an MBA at Central St Martins, style's scholastic divine grail, or "the Harvard of style," as she contacts it.).