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b'Deb Johns on Vogue experience with Tiffany\'s then Design Director John Loring ~\\n\\n". . . you learned every day. We used to have a Tuesday speaker come in. John Loring came in from Tiffany. And the best line I ever heard was he said he was standing at the front of Tiffany greeting customers and a little boy and his mom walked in and he had an FAO Schwartz bag. And he looked out at the broad floor of Tiffany with all the lights and blue boxes and he said, "Mommy, what is this?" And she said, "It\'s Mommy\'s FAO Schwartz." And so that was a moment in his life. He said it defined the importance of his brand."\\n\\nDeb Johns - Founder and Creative Director SCOUT Bags in studio interview with Andy Ockershausen\\n\\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tThis is Andy Ockershausen and this is Our Town. And I have a new guest and she\'s not really my guest, she\'s the guest of the Bubes family.\\nDeb Johns:\\tI\'ll take it.\\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tThat ain\'t bad. We know that. But Deb Johns is an inventor,\\na designer, a wonderful, wonderful part of Our Town. And I\'m so glad she moved her business here. And Deb is a designer. And Deb, the founder of SCOUT bags.\\nDeb Johns:\\tSCOUT bags.\\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tWhat a great reputation to women. They all know what I\'m saying. I did not know. Now I know.\\nDeb Johns:\\tYeah, and if they don\'t, they do now, right? Yeah.\\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tNow I know because you\'re gorgeous and I remember that.\\nDeb Johns:\\tThank you.\\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tThat\'s important. Believe me.\\nDeb Johns:\\tThank you.\\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tWhen you go around selling. So Deb, you moved ... But you were in business in New York.\\nDeb Johns:\\tI was.\\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tYou worked at Vogue.\\nThe New York Experience - Vogue Glory Days\\nDeb Johns:\\tYes, yes.\\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tWere they the glory days of Vogue? I guess they\'re still glory days.\\nDeb Johns:\\tYou know, it really was the "devil wears Prada". In fact, my days at Vogue were in the late \'70s, early \'80s when it was such an era of surplus, of enormity, of just vision and creativity.\\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tWow.\\nDeb Johns:\\tWhat a great place to be in that time. I think I was in New York City the day disco died but I was at the discos until they died. We were club kids, we were running around, we were learning the business. And I had the benefit of really meeting some of the most iconic designers and influencers in those days in the business.\\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tI know exactly what you\'re saying, how important that is. But did you grow up in the city?\\nDeb Johns:\\tI did not. I am a mutt. I\'m a true mutt. I grew up all over the country, west coast, east coast, northeast.\\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tMilitary?\\nDeb Johns:\\tNo, my father was with a big corporation and instead of leaving us all week and going on the road he said, "Let me just move them every couple of years," which, frankly, I think made us really adaptable. \\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tOh, I\'m sure it did.\\nDeb Johns:\\tYeah, very adaptable.\\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tA wonderful life, huh?\\nDeb Johns:\\tYeah, yeah. And I feel very comfortable anywhere I go.\\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tWell, how\'d you end up in New York? \\nCornell University - Design School\\nDeb Johns:\\tI ended up in New York, went to Cornell University, majored in design and textiles. It was really very much by plan.\\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tThat\'s one of the world famous design schools - Cornell.\\nDeb Johns:\\tIt\'s great. Great design school. Spent a semester in-\\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tTough winters but great school.\\nDeb Johns:\\tYeah, if you can get through that snow with your high boots on. But I did have a-\\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tI remember looking at a map and I don\'t think that New York State has been without snow since November.\\nDeb Johns:\\tI don\'t think so. And the city too.\\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tWhat a rough winter.\\nDeb Johns:\\tIt\'s been a touch one. I have a son up there and-\\nAndy Ockershausen:\\tWhere\'s he going?\\nAOL - Jim Kimsey\\nDeb Johns:\\tHe actually went to Michigan and works for AOL. He\'s an interviewer,'