We were doing great, but I wanted to be able to break into a non-fetish market. All the sex shops and magazines like that wanted it and it really blew up. But they ended up with a fetish market focus, which I never wanted. Out of school, I started a full line of high-fashion rubber clothes. It was really gratifying when it came to clothing and accessories, I guess. It was a form of art that allowed me to be able to release it into the world for once. Originally, I became interested in shoe-making and the idea that you draw something and you make exactly that and then you're finished. I sort of became obsessed with the aesthetics - with paintings, I would just keep painting them and painting them and I could never find an endpoint. I went to the Art Institute of Chicago and was a fine art painter and photographer. Westword: How did you begin designing clothes and jewelry? See also: December fashion events this week bring more holiday cheer In advance of the Denver debut of his accessible streetwear collection, Mac spoke with Westword about how he started, his friend and muse Needles, and his own personal connection to Colorado. The New York City-based designer will be in Denver tonight showing his brand-new Spring 2014 GMAC collection at EXDO Events Center as part of Fashion Feast 2013, a locally produced fashion show and fundraiser featuring RuPaul's Drag Race winner Sharon Needles. Eventually shifting his discipline to fashion, he's now a couturier for famous clients like Lady Gaga, Debbie Harry and Britney Spears. Internationally renowned designer Geoffrey Mac began his career in fine art, working as a painter and photographer.
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