When You Pass a Lemonade Stand, Don’t Drive By,Stop and Buy Some!
This past Wednesday, the FashInvest team were guest of Consensus Advisors at The Next Great Consumer Brand Showcase at the NASDAQ where twenty emerging and growth companies showcased to an audience of investors and advisors. We had a chance to listen to Kevin Plank, CEO and Founder of Under Armour, who presented a powerful message on entrepreneurship, its necessity for our global economy `and encouraging a new generation to lead with innovation and courage, to explore the unknown, and create enterprises today that address markets and needs not yet recognized. This is exactly what he did when he started his global enterprise as a student and football player at the University of Maryland. Mr. Plank presented his story of Under Armour (“UA”) and how his simple creation of a compression based spandex t-shirt to wick away perspiration from he and his fellow football players has grown to a nearly $2 billion dollar annual revenue global company with a market capitalization approaching $6 billion.
Antoinette Karma Reveals the Ins, Outs and Future of HOA 1950
Antoinette Karma is the founder and designer of House of Antoinette 1950, also known and HOA 1950. This is a collection filled with bold accessories aimed toward making every outfit a statement piece. HOA 1950 was started in 2010 in the Philadelphia area carrying items such as jewelry, handbags, and even millinery.
Charles Corvsky Dieujuste Empowers Women Through Fashion
Charles Corvsky Dieujuste is taking the fashion world by storm with his ready to wear CCD Signature Label. He passionately designs to enhance both the inner and outer confidence that every woman deserves to have. Charles was born in Haiti and uses his talents toward humanitarian efforts and giving back to his community as well as manufacturing some of his garments there. Founded in 2009, the online store was developed to make his garments more reachable to women across the world.
Shantall Lacayo Talks About Art Influence, Success and Aspirations as a Designer
Growing up with a father as a painter and a mother as a gallery owner, Shantall Lacayo wanted to follow in the artistic footsteps of her parents in a different approach. While growing up in Managua, Nicaragua, she completed her first Barbie dress with pieces of leftover fabric from a local seamstress at the age of six. From this point on, Shantall continued to design for family and friends as well as socialites and her local dance school through out high school, to pursue her dream of becoming a designer.
Take a Walk in Vegan Shoes with Krze Designer, Leila Kerze
Leila Kerze is working on launching her first footwear collection for Fall 2013 called KRZE STUDIO. It will be an Italian made, high-end, vegan luxury shoes inspired by LA fashion, music and motorcycles. “I love utilitarian function and gritty realism. Like the nuts and bolts, literally the ones found in a hardware store, holding the whole thing together. Mix that with the infinite spiritual universe all around us always, the visions we take as “otherworldly” or manifested in surrealism and one can arrive at my ideal for style,” explains Leila as she launches a 30-day campaign to help raise funds for this original line ending on April 21, 2013.
Exclusive Interview with Milbert K. Bentham of Kalulu Kids
Last week, FashInvest featured Kalulu Kids clothing line and its African inspired pieces created by Milbert K. Bentham. Bentham used her business background to start up her company. She studied economics at Cornell and received her MBA at Georgetown University. While working mostly with finance, Bentham always had a love for fashion. “My grandmother was a seamstress and used to make my dresses and I would help her cut patterns from newspapers and have an opinion about my dresses. Through high school and college, I was also always involved in fashion mostly through modeling,” explained Bentham. She even modeled for different student organizations and design leagues during her time at Cornell. So, why Kalulu?
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Muse & Co Raises $3.4M in Funding, Flash Sales Sites Still a Hot Commodity
Fashion-loving Japanese startup Muse & Co has raised 350 million yen, (approximately $3.4 million), in series B funding for its fledgling e-commerce business. Participants in this round were Itochu Technology Ventures, Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, and Infinity Ventures Partners (IVP); this funding comes exactly a year after a smaller first round.
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