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How I Invented the Designer Jean in 1968 (Memoir)
Before I was 18 years old, in my small home town of Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, Canada, I invented the designer jean, about a decade before Calvin Klein http://www.calvinkleinjeans.com/ and Jordache http://www.jordache.com/ -- and even Gloria Vanderbilt http://www.thefind.com/apparel/info-g... .
But the men in our family clothing business dismissed my idea, and wouldn't back me. So I bid a sad good-bye to Mother and headed for the big city -- Halifax -- where, three years later, and, still months shy of my 21st birthday, I established two publishing companies, including Anderbo Books, today http://www.anderbo.com .
Then somehow I got it into my head to be an actor -- eventually I got to New York in 1978, and was soon in the personal class of Lee Strasberg. But, one day before class, Lee's wife Anna, seeing me with my face buried in The New York Times, said, "How can you read the newspaper with so many interesting people around you?"
I left acting; soon my writings were appearing in the Times, the Village Voice, SPY, The New Yorker, Grand Street, Open City Magazine, and on Mr. Beller's Neighborhood http://www.mrbellersneighborhood.com/... .
But as the years went on, designer jeans were -- are -- all around me, and it's not unreasonable to think of what might have been.... http://www.nsbd.ca/results.php?hide_i... .
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Rick Rofihe is the author of FATHER MUST, published by Farrar Straus & Giroux
(Editor: Jonathan Galassi; Agent: Gail Hochman). For a free download of his book of nine New Yorker stories, BOYS who DO the BOP, go to http://www.anderbo.com/bop9.html .
Rick is a winner of the Whiting Writer's Award; judges the Open City magazine's annual short story contest, the RRofihe Trophy http://opencity.org/the-rrofihe-trophy ; and is an advisor for the 2011 Vilcek Foundation Literature prizes.
But the men in our family clothing business dismissed my idea, and wouldn't back me. So I bid a sad good-bye to Mother and headed for the big city -- Halifax -- where, three years later, and, still months shy of my 21st birthday, I established two publishing companies, including Anderbo Books, today http://www.anderbo.com .
Then somehow I got it into my head to be an actor -- eventually I got to New York in 1978, and was soon in the personal class of Lee Strasberg. But, one day before class, Lee's wife Anna, seeing me with my face buried in The New York Times, said, "How can you read the newspaper with so many interesting people around you?"
I left acting; soon my writings were appearing in the Times, the Village Voice, SPY, The New Yorker, Grand Street, Open City Magazine, and on Mr. Beller's Neighborhood http://www.mrbellersneighborhood.com/... .
But as the years went on, designer jeans were -- are -- all around me, and it's not unreasonable to think of what might have been.... http://www.nsbd.ca/results.php?hide_i... .
***
Rick Rofihe is the author of FATHER MUST, published by Farrar Straus & Giroux
(Editor: Jonathan Galassi; Agent: Gail Hochman). For a free download of his book of nine New Yorker stories, BOYS who DO the BOP, go to http://www.anderbo.com/bop9.html .
Rick is a winner of the Whiting Writer's Award; judges the Open City magazine's annual short story contest, the RRofihe Trophy http://opencity.org/the-rrofihe-trophy ; and is an advisor for the 2011 Vilcek Foundation Literature prizes.
Free NYC Class/Salon on Literary Publishing
I hold a free one-night-a-month class/salon on all facets of literary publishing here at 270 Lafayette Street, Suite 1412, New York NY 10012, the shared offices of Open City Magazine & Books and my online literary journal Anderbo.com (space is limited.) Usually it's on a Wednesday evening, sometimes Monday evening, often Sunday afternoons, and occasionally Saturday afternoons.
E-mail me directly at rrofihe@yahoo.com
Rick Rofihe
Publisher & Editor-in-Chief
http://www.anderbo.com
Judge, The Open City RRofihe Trophy
http://opencity.org/the-rrofihe-trophy
E-mail me directly at rrofihe@yahoo.com
Rick Rofihe
Publisher & Editor-in-Chief
http://www.anderbo.com
Judge, The Open City RRofihe Trophy
http://opencity.org/the-rrofihe-trophy
