Jenna Lyons, President, J.Crew:

My first fashion memory was I got to dress the Calvin Klein show at the Plaza. I was dressing Cordula [Reyer], who was, you know, an Amazon and lovely and so gorgeous and the most crazy thing happened. I remember Calvin asked Carla Bruni to change into this dress because it wasn’t working on another girl and she dropped her clothes and just stood there buck naked and I had never seen a body like that in my life. I was completely blown away and I was like, ‘OK, now I understand why they’re models.’ She looked like a creature. She just dropped her clothes and threw the dress on and walked for him and [Calvin] was like, ‘We’re changing that look.’ And I thought, ‘OK, that was amazing.’