Barbie to Michelle

Who is to say a childhood playing with Barbies is wasted? This was how Jason Wu spent his young years in Vancouver; and for his tenth birthday his Taiwanese parents bought him a sewing machine to make the dolls clothes, and hired a sewing teacher to  help him improve his skills. Now he makes gowns for the First Lady and film stars attend his shows.
Not sure where I went wrong, as I spent years making clothes for Barbie and Sindy, and further years copying Jackie fashion sketches, then inventing my own. Possibly I could blame my school for pushing me down the academic route, added to which my form teacher bullied me into doing GCE Domestic Science instead of art because I'd already done more of the former!?!  I did make a last ditch final stand by taking a foundation art course years later, and I must say my cooking has never amounted to much!
But anyway, all praise to Jason Wu's parents for such encouragement. And apparently he still makes high-end fashion doll lines, many of which are collected.