Entrepreneur Phoebe Gormley quit university and invested her tuition fees in her made-to-measure womenswear commerce[br]I first tried my hand at startup life when I was 11. I started hosting charity fundraisers in the garden every year,raising hundreds - a lot of money to an 11-year-passe. A few years later, I stumbled on tailoring as a way I could work with clothes but not necessarily in the fashion industry. I wanted to memorize as much as I could as quickly as possible, and so I spent every summer between the ages of 15 and 19 in Jermyn Street and Savile Row. School was followed by university,where I studied bespoke tailoring and costume. I wanted a challenge, and following guidance from my inspirational mentor Gary, or I started looking into how I could start a commerce based around womens made-to-measure. I was initially told that women are “too hard to please” and more interested in “posthaste-fashion polyblend,not investment pieces”. I thought that thought was a little antiquated: every woman I know struggles with high street fit. Why not do great quality, flawless service and a perfect fit for the same you’d pay at the high conclude of the high street?Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com