Flint is home to more than 75 fashion-focused businesses whose owners strive to keep pace with ever-changing market demands. Among the most visible is Kala Wilburn, the founder of her original clothing line Fannie Lucille as well as Flint Vehicle City Fashion Week and its signature Fashion Against Violence event, which she launched to raise […]
The energy was hard to describe. The networking was at fever pitch and the camaraderie so thick, it could be cut with a knife. No, it wasn’t the a summit of world leaders, but of local ones, gathered at the First Trinity Missionary Baptist Church for the GoGetHER Conference, the first of its kind in […]
You can make it. That was a central theme of Flint’s recent GoGetHER Conference, which showcased the success stories of women like Naturalicious Hair Care Products Founder & CEO Gwen Jimmere. As an unemployed, single mother, Jimmere launched her national business with only $32 in assets and a desperate mandate to support her young son. […]
Fashion Savvy blogger Tamela Tatum loves vintage. Her desire to collect the stylish coats and handbags of yore is so strong that on a recent trip to Lansing to visit a client, Tatum vowed to hit every Salvation Army and thrift shop on the two-hour trip from Detroit. The 41-year-old fashionista is the founder of Fashion […]
There was a time when Tachina Mack preferred a sure thing, professionally – regular work hours and checks that arrived on regular paydays. Risk-taking wasn’t a path she traveled in her career. But years later she’s the owner of Gifted Dezyns Graphics and Printing, a company that operates in three states. At the GoGetHER Conference […]