Can you really make it in the $298 billion dollar fashion industry? Maybe yes but maybe no. The odds are against most new designers and the years put in as apprentices can be long and grueling.
Three Canadian sisters might have bucked the odds and are on their way to making it with their award-winning apparel and accessories label, Beckerman.
Not too bad having started out selling hand knitted dog sweaters on the streets of New York, calling their enterprise "Cubby Couture" after their three-year-old Pomeranian, Cubby.
To read the first installment of this monthly series into how these talented, gifted, and in the-right-place-at-the-right-time sisters bucked the odds read this Newsweek article.
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Great news -- thanks for the inspiration, Marta!
Posted by: Ellen Weber | June 1, 2006 7:39 AM | Permalink to Comment