 The Piva Show is sponsored by mountgox.com and mesigrill.com and carpebm.com hi guys welcome back to the Piva Show today I have Pamela Quincy an Italian designer from Italy how are you I'm good thank you for this nice I know it's excited we got shoes we have dresses I mean we have it all here in the studio guys and hopefully you will enjoy it as much as I will now when did you come from Italy to New York City well okay so let's start this adventure I came two years ago in 2009 I was working in Milan for many years and at one point I decided to have a trip and I said what can I go let's go to New York I didn't really want to come to New York I just decided to have a trip and relax after having like work a lot in the fashion industry Milan and New York choose me so I definitely after five minutes that I was here I was in the cabin Times Square like that oh my god the best place in the world like a lot of energies and everything and I really decide right away I want to stay here exactly so I I just start to to see how this was like become possible and and how long have you lived here now two years two years wow September 3rd of September it's gonna be two years nice so how do you feel how is a competitive world in New York City than in Italy well fashion is a very competitive world I think everywhere Milan they used to call the capital of fashion but I think New York it's really his sorry Milan of course everywhere it's very hard it's not just fancy and glittery and fashion it's a very strong world exactly yeah and how do you promote yourself here now that well let's say that everything starts just for fun I was I was just moving New York and working for a company that I'm designing to for this company so what's the name it's an handbags company okay cool way I work for them and then just for fun and we start to wear my shoes and actually Milan I made my first pair and I just bring it with me I was going out and I said well why not put just my shoes and have you know and then people was like stop me and say well where'd you get that these are nice so I start to make new pairs nice and and then everything starts one day when a girl that I met in a club she told me well like you actually have a very interesting style we should have a fashion show definitely it's like a fashion show in New York and I I start and I did like this first fashion show at greenhouse that is like yeah that's like one of the top clubs out here yeah I mean pretty much all the celebrities go to the greenhouse I still haven't been actually I have to go guys so we did this fashion show at greenhouse and it was April in 2010 and after this show I never stopped I know I see I mean I've been to what I went to your first fashion show I believe the Plaza Hotel yes actually that's where we met and then afterwards I went I went to a couple other ones and then I also went to your first year anniversary yes that was a high room and we have a lot of fun we had like a cake exactly it was beautiful we had a mini fashion show yeah it's very it's very interesting like the fashion world in New York because it really gives gives a lot of young designers the possibility to show the collection their ideas and that that's a little bit the difference between Italy and America because it really is like the place where you really get the chance and the opportunity to show what you have as an artist exactly so of that how do you get how do you get most out of your customers like I promote myself and my collection through events parties on fashion shows talking on interviews every possibilities that I have meeting people I like I like I really like to work like with clients and like I I always invite them in my studio in Chelsea and I customize most of my pieces so if they like a pair of shoes that they feel comfortable with that just okay so let's put on some crystals make it your own you know yeah yeah awesome I like when people feel special wearing something that I make that's the first thing that make me feel happy hey like I mean I actually went to your studio in Chelsea it was it was amazing I walked in I was like oh my god this is like a girl's dollhouse like it was so cool and how do you like would the people come to you with ideas or do you just have your own idea that you want to make I pretty much have my ideas because I know that my style is kind of unique and maybe it's a little bit fancy and glittery but if people have some like I would like to have like a pair of shoes in like in pink or with this and that we definitely work something out together yeah and what is your new spring fashion it's gonna look like actually that's the pair that I just finished I just made and yeah so it's gonna be a lot of metals and shining and I use them also in like pink metal and blue so that's the first one in gold this is a really really like hot shoe right here guys like seriously I would wear that shoe maybe for Halloween or something who knows maybe I could try it right now let's try it on you want to try a shoe on yes let's do it let's see oh yeah let's see let's see yes it's just oh well I kind of it I think well ladies here's the shoe you could actually oh my god it actually fits look like wait am I using for Halloween and I can dress up like Britney Spears or something oh this is so hot girls I love you girls seriously you guys always have like the best stuff out there for guys we don't get no designs on our shoes we just get plain old black or white shoes I say Nike or you should totally like get a man's line I will wear it now I want to ask you why are you wearing the double flag dress okay the double flag dress it's because in June I was I had a fashion competition in Italy in Rome that is called Ponte Milve Moda and I was one of the designer to be in the competition to be the best young designer 2011 and I think I actually won congratulations yay so yeah that was an amazing like opportunity to be back in my country and to show for the first time collection so I was really like oh my god I don't know if they're gonna like it really like New York style and a lot of energy in my product nice but I think they like it very cool very cool it was great cuz actually I had this dancer Alina Damario this Italian dancer that two years ago she won the Italian version of American Got Talent for dancer and she's the first dancer here in New York for the Parsons school this ballad company and she opened my show dancing a Lady Gaga song wearing a body that I am brother for her yeah oh wow she was hiding herself on a tutu and then an explosion of crystals and that was really really nice to be her with me and that I was very nice moment for me that's awesome yeah must have been thrilled like American Idol wow yeah the same thing for yeah it's called Amici and for them flat the double-frag dress is because I made that for me for the end of the show just to say that I love my country but I love America too because right now that's the place where I live and give me the opportunity to do everything I'm doing so I love you you see that we love you America and Italy no has the weaker economy economy affected your business at all or yeah unfortunately I think everywhere we have a very bad moment and in fashion it's not easy it's not easy in Italy like I know and when I move it was very the time where the recession arrived here and then there and then I move here but it's still very very difficult so yeah you know exactly but hey we all try and we try to make the best of it we will try why not to keep follow our dreams and try to continue to do everything otherwise what we do we don't do anything anymore so now we have to be strong and keep going and hopefully you're gonna be better soon yes follow your dreams guys cuz without them we wouldn't be here yeah and actually for following my dreams I want to see that that is when I was in Rome for the fashion show I also was part of this event for this magazine called art art artistic resource of tomorrow nice that is a magazine for emerging artists in fashion in music in all the all the different fields with entertainment everything these guys in Rome are doing a great job and are interviewing artists all around Italy and why not then of course and wow I'm so congratulations on being on the cover check this out guys she's on the cover of art like this is amazing congratulations in New York with this photographer Margarita Mirabella from Italy she's so talented and we have fun and I say guys make sure that people don't think that it's like a magazine that how you wash your clothes I mean I mean I mean a lot exactly but no it turns very well you turn into the land you turn laundry into a sex symbol show the inside of it oh yeah so we have a lot of interviews and it's a lot of different artists and and then here in the middle you have my interview Pamela's that is like my story how I begin everything it's Cinderella story she is the Cinderella of New York City guys yeah I'm gonna show you like that is so hot I love it I love this picture where all the shoes on the floor yeah that was a picture I shoot in Milan the Cinderella New York that's funny because this Italian magazine in December fashion basics they wrote an article about me and they were just asking me questions so what you do and about the shoes and they came up with the news in the realm of New York yeah okay now all you need is the little the little rats you can buy them over like hey guys gonna help me make some shoes like in the movie enchanted oh my god that's like my favorite movie that's crazy that's my that's my life in one the pinch you because that's that's like the first pair I made in New York and it's actually bring me a lot of luck in my first fashion show a greenhouse and then a lot of photo shooting events I had like I was lucky to meet this girl that with Elena she won the American the Italian version America got talent singer nice so I met both of them and she came to New York to shoot this music video so and through a friend of mine Marco Salome that is the best director of videos in Italy and worldwide and we should this video around New York it was March and it was freezing and Emma this incredible singer she was wearing one of my dresses and this pink boots now guys we'll be right back and when we come back we're going to show you some of her dresses and also we will show you some more shoes and thank you guys this show is sponsored by momgox.com it's the largest online exchange services for bitcoins and they also now take euros and GVP and all CAD is coming any day now euro coming with vital math acquisition momgox mobile app on Android market allows you to use bitcoins on the go you'll be key USB security device protects your account even on compromised computers and messy grill.com we're authentic Mediterranean food meets modern flavor now serving breakfast it's on 8th Avenue on 55th Street in New York City just a couple blocks 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spandex nice and just to come back to the metallic we have metallic spandex in different colors I am I have in the collection this shape in double colors and everything has embroidery on the front yeah I like that maybe I could wear it for you know Halloween with the shoes and here is another piece of my collection yeah and always always I like I really like silk and silk organza tool chiffon nice and everything with embellishment and we have a necklace too let me try this one we can go like that to have grocery exactly I mean the spirit of my collection is you have to have fun you have to be happy and feel special exactly I mean we all have to you know I mean like that's how it is when my photography to like you know I try to make everybody feel special with everything I do exactly we need to I like to to have all my girls and my feel like a princess yeah that's my princess world you're all welcome to join my princess world everywhere we're all princesses right yeah um so talk to me show me some of these shoes here let's see some of the shoes I want to show you this shoe that that's the first pair ever yeah I met them in Milan when I was about like what should I do in my life living in Milan for nine years working with all the best fashion companies I have the chance to work with studying in the best school is Tito Marangoni that's really for in Europe one of the most important we have Milan Paris and London I was in the one in Milan and one day after working working hard I was just like oh my god I need to relax exactly so I start to put some crystals in this shoe and I say but I don't want to do the the other one like the same so that's my signature that every shoe is different so yeah you will never have a pair of Pamela Quincy shoes same right and left no it's like this one right here right yeah everything is different everything always look guys yep always different shoes yeah yeah always different it's funny how the reaction of people when I walk on soon yeah they're like what is that I like a new style hey that's how you start though when you have a different type of style just like the dress is two different flags yeah I mean people will be like oh my god I want that on my outfit you know like yeah I would want to a Puerto Rican and American flag I think I need to start to make a different double yeah I will next collection yes yeah and then um do you have another dress that you want to show us or yeah it's a you can it's part of the first part of the first collection that I made here okay always and brotheries and this is really nice I love this dress it's one of the beginning like one of your beginning dress yeah one of my beginning dress and actually I just shot that dress of yours oh yeah that's right with with the oh my god thank you for introduce me this incredible artist Athena yeah she's amazing I mean love really when I was like listening her voice on the on internet on the website and she's amazing and she can sing and dance and she have this energy incredible yeah thank you for introduce me her of course and I can't wait to see the picture yeah you guys have to stay tuned the photos actually came out like yeah amazing I love them I mean I'm not gonna tell you what I did but once you see you're gonna be like oh and it's totally different for her too like she loved it she was very comfortable and we had a really great shoot like we got very creative for it yeah and she was number one on MTV logo for her singles yeah love is love yeah really like you will be oh my god this girl yeah the best of luck for her for everything yeah she's amazing now let's get some of the fan questions here okay this is Tiffany Otto from Ohio and she says I want to know how you feel about being a powerful woman in the workplace and what are some of the obstacles they have faced in being a powerful woman in the fashion industry that's a good question okay so I'm proud to be powerful ladies like a woman you know like sometimes when I talk with men like in the industry in the business I think I shocked them first five minutes you're like yeah oh my god let me run away from her I know they feel threatened you know when you start they see my oh she's a nice girl and then it starts to talk and I'm like I have a brain I think I'm smart so let me tell you what I think and they're like oh my god I feel good to be a woman yeah yeah we need some powerful woman yes we do in the fashion and everything exactly I mean you know it's almost like I mean it's good to be a guy you know and have some some type of you know powerful image but it's not good when you're cocky we don't like cocky men you know but just have like a passion and love and love everybody around you you know don't be cocky about it cuz the same people that will bring you up if you start to act like a diva exactly I don't need you in my life exactly I like I like spontaneous I like very modest people the top of the like the very important people are so easily talking and like yes like no like acting like oh are you okay bye it was like that one comment that you wrote on your Facebook what did you say to the days you wrote something about if I if I yes and you say no and then you say yes I say no that was so amazing I was like oh my god I have to like today you say no tomorrow you will like me to say yes and I'll say no exactly yeah we need to like we have just one life smile and have fun and enjoy it and live it up baby now we have another question and this is from Ricky abs from Bronx New York and he asks what inspired you to be in the fashion world who would you love to work with dead or alive very good question Ricky I have one one person that I will love to meet one day that is Tom Ford I was following everything he was doing when I was in Milan he was that was the time that he was very powerful at Gucci and in Salaran and he for me he really like build the brand a philosophy of life that's what I will add for my collections to be not just a fashion collection but like a status of a philosophy of life and he was really amazing the the ladies and the woman were very like sexy and kind of powerful lady I know what you want also the men lie was very elegant and you see like very nice style and everything was perfect the everything in the companies are like Gucci and in Salaran I would start any love and I think he did a great job and one day I remember I was in Milan after a fashion show after a Gucci fashion show and I was waiting and waiting with a friend of mine in a car and he maybe around 9 p.m. he finally get out from the face and we start to follow him in the car you're stalking him like three for tickets right away because he was driving in private like street so we follow him till a restaurant and I was just like I say hi no pictures nothing but that was the best moment I would like to meet him because I still feel like he is like a good inspiration for them you know the feeling how a woman have to be elegant I like that I like elegant yeah you are very elegant yeah my craziness it's still always a woman that have to be sexy and elegant exactly oh my god this this is actually that picture that was my Halloween fashion show that's awesome now we have another question oh wait what is this one that's my last campaign with exactly one of the metallic dresses and we are in New York as you can see and that was shoot a week ago nice so it's about the Cinderella of New York that come that is my blog yeah that what I'm writing all the story like how everything starts and step-by-step so what is this what is the name of the bug again Cinderella of New York that come Cinderella of New York that calm yeah so that's the campaign for the new collection and new pieces I don't like to say that I have a season because it's more about new unique pieces in my collection I don't want to divide in winter or summer that's a good way yes make it different you know like the double thing the double dress is double shoes like I just love that you know I mean that definitely will make who you are as in a you know identity that's that does make you who you are yeah and then you'll definitely differentiate from the other fashion designers and I think that you will go a long long way definitely no what about this one that's part of the of the campaign and I want to keep my lucky pink boots yeah so she's like a doll a princess in in this world that she have and then she starts to going around but she's not sure that she wants to live her world but she tried that's why we see her on the street like no that's really cool I mean this is actually you're inside your yeah you can definitely you see guys you could definitely see that this looks like a dollhouse like her apartment looks like a dollhouse that went in there and I was like oh my god what is this you know like it I was like I'm going into Barbie's house right now or Cinderella you know yeah and um oh that's the moment you recognize the dress yeah I want a word at Ponte in Italy Ponte Milvian mother yeah wow this is so cool you must have been like so happy yeah I was very happy also because my family was there so they live in Italy they never see me so that was a nice special moment yeah that's my studio yes it's another picture yeah I like that I love this photo with the that's I tell you the story the converse so after my first pair that I made in Milan I was about to leave and I'm and I was like I want to bring my shoes in New York and you know like for good luck and come with me in the luggage but I was like but I want to have something like I know that I was walking so much in New York I want to have something special to wear but to be comfortable because I don't know with like yeah how many blocks you can do so like let me just put something here and there and I create the first pair of converse it's gonna be a line that is gonna arrive soon like if you if you want to have a pair of converse with my design on you can just contact me and and have it and they can contact you at Pamela Quincy design.com.com yeah that's my website that's Elena da Mario the dancer and she's great as you can see but you should see her dancing in real it's amazing and she was wearing this body that I embroidered for her and that was the beginning of the show that is amazing yeah you could definitely see her yeah yes yes yes and she's beautiful some of my creations I love those shoes and this one to the beginning of my collection yeah that was my first red carpet event with my logo here nice Pamela Quincy yeah and that's one of my dresses you look beautiful I had long hair before but it looks this yes summer you know let it go back out in the winter we need to like cover up yeah the shoes are this picture is from the Plaza fashion show with where we met yeah that was a nice and that's the singer and Mama Rone during the video music that was in Times Square and that's good one of my dresses and yeah she's amazing and beautiful oh wow that's a great picture that's in the music video right yeah Penn Station 3 a.m. in the morning hey that's how you have to do it that's one like nobody's in there you could do whatever it was yeah Elena dancing for a photo shooting in Bryan Park with this dress that I show you before that's nice yeah that's a beautiful picture yeah me and her she looks like she's flying isn't that us that is amazing and you're just like whatever like it's Cinderella yeah okay so I have another question we also have another fan question and his name is Jordan Essek from Orlando Florida Florida I just came back from Florida this year I'm from Florida yeah well part of Orlando you want to know I went to Gainesville and Jacksonville yeah how was it it was nice I was with my boyfriend it was hot over there right yeah and the raining so Jordan is asking what gives you the courage to create such lavish and bold dress designs and where do you come up with the designs do you just have an idea or does another object trigger the idea for design I would also compliment you on all the beautiful dresses he loves your dresses and he says he's he admires you so that's like how'd you come up with this crazy I think I was crazy dress this girl I know right I think you're right I don't even know I think is the Garmin district fault that I work there every day I'm like oh my god I love this I love this I love this and then I create it came just from my mind yeah everything what about now would you what is your I just wanted to ask you real quick what celebrity would you want to dress right now that's out in the world Lady Gaga yes we all love Lady Gaga crazy yeah right you love your dresses please Lady Gaga if you're watching this make sure that you go to Pamela Quincy design calm and reach out to her and she will love to make you outfit we can eat some pasta together now what is what are you wanting to do now in your future what what are you so now I'm planning I have an event with a fashion show next August 18 18 that is called a champagne champagne swerry nice it's gonna be at Polar Polar Lounge in New York nice city and we're gonna start the event at 7 p.m. probably the fashion show will be around 9 p.m. okay and I can't wait yay and what do you think they can get the tickets yeah they can just go online and check the champagne swerry on events tribe okay or you guys can add her on Facebook and then for fashion week of course I'm gonna have my fashion show it's a secret I definitely want to come I will definitely be there yes I can walk down the runway or something well thank you so much Pamela for coming on my show I truly appreciated this and everything came out I mean this is beautiful all your stuff is beautiful and I congratulate you on everything that you do and I hope that you know when you make it to the top you always remember me because we're gonna have a shooting together exactly soon with Camille oh yes like Donald yes so make sure to keep an eye on that it's gonna be a secret location from American next-up model together with Pamela and I can with Pamela Quincy design thank you now give them your well before you leave wait give them your information so that way they can yeah so you can check my website that is Pamela Quincy design dot com and contact me through the website for any dresses or shoes I have a gallery with the shoot and just check my blogs in the relic new york dot com nice so you can read my story and thank you guys for watching and I'll be back in later on love you guys