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Speaking of Curves: Meet ShawnDenise of PaintbyShawnDenise!
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Oct 31, 2024
Join us today for a new FB Live of Speaking with curves! Today's guests? Meet ShawnDenise of PaintbyShawnDenise! Come on over at 12pm EST/ 9am EST as we chat about how we can best support these business owners and to talk a little bit about fashion and work from home tips!
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in plus-size fashion like we're here to help right oh you guys can't hear me I'm
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gonna say it one more time okay I'm Marie de neige the creator of the curvy fashionista welcome to speaking of
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curves our plus-size fashion Facebook live series where we interview
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various plus-size designers business owners influencers people in the
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community that we need to support to kind of help get through this time right our special guest today is Miss Jean
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Denis and she is a designer who was actually born and raised in Decatur where is greater I'm hearing it here in
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Georgia but um as you guys are tuning in do me a favor make sure you say hello
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make sure you let us know where you're tuning in from and if you have friends that are looking for some really bold
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dynamic exciting plus-sized fashion pieces make sure you share this Facebook
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live so that they can join us right so they can get to know the designer behind painted by Shonda nice so do me a favor
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and let's welcome miss Shonda nice hello Sean hi how are you doing what I'm doing
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wonderful well thank you for joining us today thank you for having me
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like it's so exciting to have you I've been I think we've been chatting on
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Facebook for some years now right yeah yes and we didn't even know that we live
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down the street from each other right wait both you and I be stuck at home huh
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yes always that's the house but I'm a workaholic for a reason so okay like
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show us why so tell us a little bit
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about yourself tell us a little bit about your brand like how long have you been designing like tell us a little bit
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about you okay um well just a little bit I'm a graduate of Tennessee State
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University born in Atlanta raised in Decatur I lived all over the southeast
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region and during that period of traveling with my job I realized that I
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really to be a fashion designer so in 2013 I was actually living in Albany Georgia I
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decided to create my own plus-size line I'm a self-taught centrist designer
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everything um everything I pretty much just can't either learned on my own or
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watching YouTube one of the things that I noticed back then was there wasn't a
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lot of color and there weren't a lot of statement and detailed pieces and so
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that's pretty much what I wanted to do I'm very artistic I love designing
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designing from clothing to pretty much anything I just love design but I wanted
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to make sure that my collection that you have a little bit of detail in some of
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my work something that you could not find anywhere else so that was pretty much the core of why I became a designer
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and what I wanted people to see when they saw my clothing all right so bold is I keep referencing
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bold because you talked about like they didn't see a lot of color like the second that you go onto your st. you see
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blues and purples and reds and animal prints and watercolor painting colors
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and patterns and and that's exciting because you're right you know oftentimes like you know for the longest time it
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was like black navy brown and maybe white bread maybe right and so right go
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ahead even now you go into a store you know they have these seasonal colors and
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then those are the colors that you shop and you may get a pair of pants and and black or top and blue but I wanted it I
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wanted each collection to represent those colors but the the end point is that you will be able
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to walk into a paint brush underneath store and pick out a rib legs or our
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purple blades or our green blazer and a rail shades and colors because I just
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don't believe that I should be confined to just these seasonal colors if I want
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to wear red that was the basics behind
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paint brush underneath as you can paint yourself they need to color that you
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want to and so for those who are just tuning in we're here with Sean Denise
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from from the her collection paint by Sean Denise which is perfectly like
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apropos like paint color so if you are looking for
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playful bold designs contemporary fashions this is where you want to check
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out this is where you want to go if you I had someone D that said that they wouldn't be able to stay on longer
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wanted to know the designer no worries this will be in a replay and we will also have an article attached to this
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later on today that you can kind of peek through some of our favorite finds from the site and that you'll be able to go
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directly to his site to learn more so we've got a couple of different ways for you to stay connected even after our
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Facebook live really quick wanna save shout out to some people who said hello we've got a Tawana Natalie Rachel she's
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from South Texas we've got South Texas and has we've got Alexis Alexis coffee girl says she's
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checking in from Decatur where he's greater Georgia yeah he's got Ruth
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tuning in from New York we've got Jill Alexander hey Betty coming in from from LA from the west
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coast so as you guys are just tuning in we are here with paint by Sean Denise a
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plus-sized designer who's local here to Georgia and we're getting to know we're
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sharing with you a little bit about her line about her collection and and how and why it's important to support our
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small business owners so for you how have you been impacted how has this
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impacted we talked a little bit about this before we went live but how have you been impacted so far I definitely
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had three fashion shows planned I'm in March into an April that you know didn't
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happen so that delayed the collection that I'm getting ready early next Friday
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because it was like how do you release it you know I sympathize with everything
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that's gone I think today 36 million people lost their jobs so my initial was
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bread sure was I don't think people buy clothes too much right now there's so much going on but after I've watched
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everything play out I just kind of motivated my sister said hey you have to
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keep going because yes some people have lost their job but there are people like
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myself because I still work my 95 but there are people like myself who are still employed and who still want find
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fashion and statement pieces so it's definitely been a learning experience for me but I've been trying to push
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forward and just keep going to go ahead and release the collection out and just see what happens as you should as you
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should and I think what's important is like when we talk about like you know folks like healing our small business
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our art designers or any designers they're the ones who foster and create innovation and show these buyers and
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major retailers the things that we want to see like and it kind of helps set the tone for you know bucking the system so
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to speak right challenging what they think that we want to wear what has been probably one of your most surprising
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bestsellers of your collection that you can never have enough of my bestseller
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last year whereas the Green met the open foot massacre
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that influence from Michael O War and then soap I laugh when you accent because before I sent it to her I said
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Michael I don't think this looks good nobody's gonna like this and she said are you crazy
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just gorgeous like I don't really know and if he showed that within about four
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hours Oh so um one thing that I also have learned you didn't journey stop
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second-guessing myself yes because I'm such I'm so hard on myself like I don't
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know how this will look and end up being a best-seller so that's why I say
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whatever I do I'm just gonna go ahead and release and let the chip oh but definitely that key I mean I I
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rethought and then I was still sold out within the day of restocking I mean
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everyone loved loved loved the open slit maxi skirt I love them too they go with
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me I'm wearing a maxi skirt right now anybody that can't be it but they go with everything so relaxing I was loved
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and so and we're always here for a good twirl maxi skirt always always so what
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is coming out new for you and you know you talked about your drop in your collection next week Friday hopefully
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maybe we can get some in um images before you drop so that we can our cheese I'm just saying I'm just saying
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what is what is this new collection all about darling so the first part was
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celebrit print and I'm doing a little bit more leopard print but I'm playing with the yellow and black and I love the
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yellow and black accent colors along with the leopard print so the continuation of the first part of paw
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patrol the spring collection and this is the second part another five books I
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love all of them and what I love the most about this collection is you can
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mix and match all of the oh that's really I'm actually that on purpose but when it came out and
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I started thousand up there man everything matches so it's bad for me and I love that shoes that everything
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matches with each other all the collectors for the most part that's that's awesome and like one of the
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things I I think for me I'm a big like I want to be able to wear one item like five different ways five different
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occasions like I need my pieces to give me options to give me variety and you
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know I want you know because for me I dress for my mood but I don't dress for
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like I just - how I'm feeling so if I'm feeling dramatic then I want to feel dramatic if I am feeling playful and
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sexy I want something that will give me that so it's definitely exciting to see
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because some of the pictures that you have shown like there's so much confidence that oozes in zynga with me
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like they are given us in life and all of these images do like they are giving
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us so much life and especially in these like animal prints I'm excited I'm
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excited about what's to come and how the next in the next space the next kind of
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collection I guess part two of paw Patrol so what is your size range my thighs
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range is from 12 to 34 oh and everything
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are size 12 to 34 and the tops were from size 1 to 6 which a 1 if I could fire
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1214 no but yeah I've worked on that size range for a while because I would
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do fashion shows and I would dress models and it just didn't seem like it extend it long enough
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mm-hmm I want this to stand long enough because when I'm on the run where I'm
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getting ready for Fashion Show I want a size 4 by 1 to 14 I want a 20 I want a 28 I want a 34 on the runway so that
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everybody can see this is for all of these different body types and height
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but all of these different heights body types everything you can wear along next to skirt and defy for or be 510 it just
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doesn't matter so that was important to me very important to me make sure that
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every size was represented in the brain and that's beautiful because a lot of
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brands right now like when they're showcasing their pieces like everyone 10 says for the longest time tended to stop
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out of 24 and now we're getting pushed back to 28 and now we're getting some
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brands that are doing a 32 so for you to bring in a 34 but you are really breaking that mold and really being
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inclusive to what we have available like you know especially making plus-size
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fashion accessible beyond you know just the traditional 14 to 24 so I appreciate
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that it was very important one of my
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models she's really the reason tanita we didn't reason why I went to a 34 because
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we were dressing for a fashion show and I felt bad like I should have something for you to wear long and so because I
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don't have anything for you to wear that means that there are plenty of people out here like the model you know who are
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looking for designer so that was that was very crucial was to make sure that
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you go to a 34 everybody should have something to wear so we've just posted up some pictures
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and we're posting up as we're talking so you can continue to talk work dropping in a couple of teasing of the images of
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what's available in the collection so that folks know like what you're what you offer and what they can expect so
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you can't see it right now right you can't see right now but they're popping up so as you guys are seeing different
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images make sure you give hearts to the images that you like so that you know when she comes back it looks like that
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she could see what people are really loving the most and just to kind of give an idea
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now this yellow top that the girl is wearing in your pictures is this what you have on it is okay okay okay oh this
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is one of my babies it's actually not a part of the collection this is the shirt
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I think I made three or four years ago actually and I brought it to the photo
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shoot and I just put it on her and it looks really really good with the pleated skirt skirt when she's not
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doesn't have this my custom-built and I do custom built in myself what is custom
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belting well the custom built-ins that I do I wish I could show you but it's
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pretty much I wanted to find a way to put elastic or to make things adjustable
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without using so much elastic in my in my garbage so I came up with this system
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and I call it my custom built in that I can put in and I put my own little belts
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in there the hammock everything and that way when you buy the pleated skirt or
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some of my skirts you buy the size up and when you adjust it it looks so
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gorgeous how smooth it flows down but that way if you were to lose weight you
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can still wear your skirt so then and of course like everything doesn't have
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elastic in it elastic of course the more you wash it of course it can build and everything but I just wanted to give a more stylish
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look to it without so much elastic and that's why I came up with the built-in system and I usually in some of my
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skirts and is some of my tops too that's brilliant that's brilliant get it
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girl I'm impressed so what other details what other small details in the collection can we pay
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attention to like that you give that's like the Shonda nice like touch the
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ruffles that I do I'm not trying to say this in any type of way but most of
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ruffles when people do it they kind of lay flat then I said this shirt is three
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years old the who's that I do now they flow I mean just just sitting still it just moves
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when the last are blowing state moves it doesn't lay flat on their chest it just
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I just want you to have that flow and elegance when you're walking our sway
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and I wanted to make sure that my ruffles didn't just lay kind of flat on
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the chest that they moved every time you swear when you walk just to give it that silhouette and that that's sexiness
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right all we do with that gone with the wind I go with the wind I can't swing in
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the air but swinging had your swing okay and that was the idea and the image that
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I saw when I start doing ruffles and I do them in a way a design way that they
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come in panels and the more panels you have the more flow you have in the
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ruffles and so that's something that I think once people get used to my brand they start seeing they're like oh that's
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flowing they look so much there must be paint my Shanti that's that's what I'm
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hoping to come out from that got it and so you know what is something that you
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haven't made yet but you want to make or that you've seen and you're like hmm how
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can I make this mind like what's something that you really want to tackle
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hmm um I definitely want to get into gowns more okay but more subtle detail
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gowns I gave draw illustrator collection maybe
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a year or so ago but the detailing is so it's so insane I can't I can't do it by
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myself I make everything now by myself I don't have a team that helps me
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manufacture the clothing I sew design you got a pattern so hopefully at some
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point when I'm able to build a team that
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collection to bring it to light so everyone can see it I mean it's so so
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heavily detail but doing gals and doing more detail where and just stuff that you normally would
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not see out especially for plus-size fashion so I'm going to challenge you I
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don't know about y'all listening in but we want to see this and you deserve it
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to yourself to to take that sketch and this may also help you become more
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resourceful and finding like an expert beater or al agent a lace maker or you
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know to expand your resources so you've got you've been challenged okay
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I'm pushing you out of your comfort zone because I surely do like a girl where where's this dress okay right right you
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know they don't like this is you know like for us like they think that I think that I've learned through like
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especially now is like this we've slowed down but it's also made us more
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introspective and looking at our goals like our real desires and dreams and motivations and really help us like
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really push ourselves because we don't want to be to be stuck at I wonder what
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if it's now it's like girl is now or never so why are you because you're not
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going to just start the dress tomorrow like you can design it you can like
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design that you can reach them you can resource it so then you can then map out backwards like oh I want a gown to go
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live by Black Friday for the holiday season because you know just in case and
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then you know you go from there because I'm sure somebody's wearing a gown on that Instagram live if not right they go
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to the grocery store in a little fancy dresses I'm just saying they will so
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you've been challenged okay and we haven't vacuumed either you've got folks here we've got folks here Jill said yes
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do it we want to see and I was like challenge extended I mean you've got
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folks here who are gonna help hold you okay because that's how we grow you may bring
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eyes and making gowns that you have you may have an epiphany and different types
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of dresses and variations that are watered down like a diffusion of that gown for everyday wear may come into
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play right right so you have to you have
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the ability and you know I think you got this we just say yes yeah definitely
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when I am able to hire more centrists and beaters and everything under
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underneath it's a go I'm ready I'm
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definitely ready mentally let me say but it's definitely your process but my goal
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is to open a manufacturing I've been at
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a lot of times you know can you help me with this I can you help me establish or
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draw this pattern I write a pattern now and I have worked with people just to kind of help them out because I do
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understand as a new designer especially when you're manufacturing everything that you do it's time-consuming mass
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production is hard and if I could be any you know give any advice to somebody
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that's new I try my best to try to say hey this is the process I'll read this
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book because there is a book on it that is just brilliant read this book and and go from there but
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the goal is to manufacture fully not only just my clothing line but the other brands that I plan to
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bring on as well and for other people you said other brands like that you
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launched it or other brands that you're just supporting through your production oh no that I plan on launching oh I'm
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working on the men's line jeggings how old big or tall and I say big or tile
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because one of the feedback that I get man is that hey I'm sure for I need
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pants with a certain extreme but I'm also a 40 44 inches in the waist so big
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are tall men's line that I'm definitely working on I want to do home decor my
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daughter yes I have two daughters and one of them is she is going to be a
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fashion designer that's all that she talks about joy so she wants to do a Church's line so I have a lot of things
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that you have no Emily of brands ready to go oh yes I'm done a little research
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here and there and we put out stamping I put out samples I've done samples for
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those collections I just kind of haven't said too much about the old book okay
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collections will be coming out definitely the man's in the mixture well
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first of all congrats on that news you know like it's funny because this is the
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time where I've actually I have like three other ideas outside of the Kirby
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fashionista that I've been getting ready to try to line up to launch and then you
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know then I have other ideas within the brand that I'm like okay this is what we need a pivot how we need a pivot because
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for me we were going to have our TC FX in LA this summer but that's been
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changed and you know who knows what December is gonna look like that's our anniversary month I wanted to finally
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have an anniversary party in out in Atlanta who knows what's gonna happen
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like for you how has like what has
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probably been your biggest like aha i opening experience in this time like in
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this time um to be completely honest I
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was really surprised that people were still shopping because even for me I've
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gotten received orders during this whole thing and so that changed my mindset because normally I go I go in to
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sympathize and I guess you can say when I'm just like oh man this is so but I
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realized that you know with everything going on I lost the college classmates
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of Colby and I've had family members that have been sick so with everything
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that's going on you know you still have to live you still have to continue our
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goals have to still be met we still have to figure out a way to proceed and go on
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and so that was the biggest thing for me is figuring out well what do I do now
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everything is pretty much changed the way we used to live the things that we
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used to do has changed I wanted to do a pop-up shop I was supposed to do one in April and now I'm thinking like well how
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do you do pop-up shops now you know I don't wanna I also have a non-contact
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temperature I don't know what it's called exactly but I don't want to check people's temperature every time they
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come to a pop-up shop but this is the reality of what we're living in right now I know it shows you sure I know what
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you can down the costume so we need to have a patient based on the nice
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Instagram live pop-up shop so you what is what are your daughter's plus not not
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really no because I'm saying they can fit a sample but basically you know you
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figure out like either you put it on a mannequin or you have to display it all pretty you can have Instagram lives
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deals right specials that are just for today and you showcase and you do that
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do that a little QVC Instagram situation and boom I love it but you know the new
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number great idea you remember each item and and then when
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people you know the first person to comment and you'll DM them and like you know pay this is much or whatever and then you said ship it off I
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don't know all the intricacies of that but you know something like that yeah
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that's a great idea I have plenty of mannequins so I can definitely do something like that yeah I love kids
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there we go you say plenty how many mannequins you back home you can part with one cuz I totally want a mannequin
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I think I have four because they're not the they're not the ones that have the
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legs it is the torsos that's okay okay okay
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right so okay so as we've gone through
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these realizations and now you you've got you been challenged I think I've challenged you and I'm giving you an
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idea okay right so we have some follow-ups to go on or two to go through
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after this like what is something that
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you feel like you probably wouldn't have done if not for this if not for
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everything that's going on in the world right now mm-hmm I'm a firm believer that everything
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happens for a reason so like I had the
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shows and everything for April which of course I was disappointed because I was
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rolling out the second half of the collection mm-hmm but I always believe
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that God always sends a sign or he sends a message or there's certain things that
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happen you always end up where you need to be so even though was thoroughly
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disappointed about those fashion shows at the same time it was not the time for
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me to do those shows okay and I feel like when they come to
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later this year I make sure that the timing and everything will be in the
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line that I don't have to worry about it it gave me a second chance and I don't
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have any regrets or anything that I will change because everything align that is
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so beautiful like I literally got a little teary eyed I'm not gonna say like you just kind of some of the things you
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just said right there and we're like I'm just really resonated like right here it
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resonated right here like for me I realized that a lot of the things that I
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have sometimes minimized myself or played down like my ideas and thoughts
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I've been scared sometimes and if anything like this time is actually allowed for me to map out all of the
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dreams and goals that I do have and set into motion those to make them happen because I'm you know forced to sit like
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there's no like constant like churning of the content as much it's like
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thoughtful like slow down and really about kind of pouring and receiving and
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so like these times I'm listening to various business owners like for me it
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is nothing but inspiring and motivating so I thank you for your words and I
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thank you for like you're so thin right now like you're so sensitive instant meanwhile over here like but I
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appreciate you I really do I really do so do me a favor tell everyone how they
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can reach you and where they can follow you yes everything is painted by Shonda
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knees and shyness SH aw yeah so it's at paint by Shonda me on Facebook Instagram
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Pinterest and YouTube um my personal is Sean underscore Janee and you can find
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me on instagram and on facebook my website if you want to purchase anything
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WW thank gosh underneath that um and like I said the new collection is coming
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within a week well this is exciting I can't wait to see oh I'm so excited for
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you well thank you so much for joining here oh my gosh so Jill Alexander said
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Amen to you Emma said Amen to you so
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like your words have really just resonated with quite a few of the people who are watching today so thank you for
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that oh no no for those of you guys are tuning in thank you so much for joining us today we will be back on Tuesday we
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have all of our guests booked up for the whole month and I'm so excited because we've got everything from other adult
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designers boutique owners influencers lingerie brands like we've got it so
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just make sure you guys always say to make sure you hit the notifications so that you never miss anything and until
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Tuesday we'll talk to you guys later have a good day and keep the bag
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