How I Made the Leap From Retail to Editorial

I had heard about Pat McGrath through a friend of mine who was assisting her and she said hey you know if you ever come to New York we can use you on the shows. So finally I was like I'm gonna make the leap I'm gonna move to New York let's see what happensWell nothing happened for a little while it was just I was living in Queens and I was schlepping my suitcase up 15 minutes up a hill an hour on the trainYeah it was really tough and I started I was just tested I met with photographers I emailed constantly you know trying to assist people nobody ever responded so I just I meet with photographers and do like like say a brand new model needed