Education Quote by Diana Ross

Ross frames ambition the way a seasoned performer frames a hit: as something that’s been in the works all along. The key move is in the casual sequencing of credibility. She doesn’t lead with celebrity, she leads with schooling: “I majored in fashion design.” That’s a quiet credential meant to preempt the eye-roll that often greets star-branded products. It’s not “I’m famous, therefore I’m launching a line.” It’s “I trained for this, and fame simply gave me a bigger runway.”

The phrase “my own line” is doing double duty. On the surface it’s about clothing and jewelry; underneath it’s about authorship. Ross, a woman who came up in an industry built on controlling women’s images, stakes a claim over the machinery of style that once defined her from the outside. She’s not just wearing a look, she’s asserting the right to originate it. That’s an empowerment story that doesn’t have to announce itself as one.

Then there’s the deliberately deflating “and stuff like that.” It reads breezy, almost offhand, but it’s strategic. It softens the commercial edge and signals taste rather than hustle: she’s not hawking a product, she’s following an aesthetic instinct. “Just a step” completes the posture of inevitability, casting entrepreneurship as continuity, not reinvention. In the larger context of celebrity fashion lines, Ross is arguing for legitimacy and legacy at the same time: the brand isn’t a pivot; it’s an extension of a life spent turning image into identity.