Black Woman Takes on Women’s Online Fashion Industry
Shop Style Shark, a fast-growing, woman-owned, Black-owned online retailer is taking on the largely male-dominated online fashion industry.
Shop Style Shark, a fast-growing, woman-owned, Black-owned online retailer is taking on the largely male-dominated online fashion industry.
Black PR Wire - The fashion industry – and particularly online fashion – continues to be male-dominated even though women spend over 200% more money on fashion than men. What’s more, even though 85% of people who graduate from fashion school are female, only 14% of the top 50 fashion
houses are run by women. And, only 40% of women’s fashion brands are designed by women.
often at the expense of the creativity which gave birth to it in the first place and which appeals to the target audience,”
said Melissa Wheeler, London-based journalist and fashion consultant.
There are women in the fashion industry who are stepping up and fighting back against what can only be labeled as gender bias. One of those women is Dionne Middlebrooks, founder of online fashion retailer, Shop Style Shark. For Dionne, fashion is more than just a career, it is a passion she has held since childhood.
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