Local fashion designer, Shirin Mahjoory, is a fourth-generation designer and operates a successful design
business out of her Okemos home.
According to excerpts from the article:
She learned design skills from her grandmother, an expert
embroidery designer in Iran. She learned business sense from her aunt, who ran
an Iranian technical school to help people make a living in the arts. And she
learned both skills from her mother, who ran an Iranian clothing factory that
employed 500 people, including 400 men.
"I'm not going to make multimillions in this
business," Mahjoory says. "But at the same time, as much as I love my
work, I wouldn't work for free. This is a dying art and it's very time-consuming.
But by not having the overhead of a storefront, I can pass the savings on to my
clients."
Read the entire article here.
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