SUMTHIN' HAUTE 

Finding Your Niche In a Cluttered Fashion Market 

This BUSINESS AND BRUNCH seminar series will focus on HAUTE tools on how to get your businesses started in the fashion industry.  How to open your own boutique.  Tools on how to create buzz for your brand.  While also listening to industry professionals, fashion designers and celebrity stylists share their individuals stories of success and pitfalls and how to sustain your business through changing markets and business trends.

Attendees receive complimentary brunch with the purchase of their ticket. 

There are ONLY (30) thirty seats available for this seminar. Please reserve your seat immediately. Admission to seminar is by ticket ONLY, purchases are not made the day of the event.  Tickets are on sale until sold out or until Friday May 16, 2008.

PANEL OF SPEAKERS: OUTERSKINZ IMAGE GROUP, DEKKA, THE ART INSTITUTE OF WASHINGTON, MAIN STREET DC and THE ORIGINAL DAVID.  For additional information about the speakers and their successes in the fashion industry see descriptions below.

 - OUTERSKINZ IMAGE GROUP | Celebrity Stylist, Angelique Alston has styled actors on Donald Trimp's latest 'Celebrity Apprentice' and celebrities like: Destiny's Child, Chante Moore, Hillary Rodman Clinton, Nora Jones, Black Eyed Peas and millions of screens across the nation by way of BET, MTV, ABC, NBC, ABC Family and the Life Time Channel, and on the pages of Vogue, Ebony, Essence, Glamour, King, Sister 2 Sister, Sophisticates Black Hair, Oxygen and Black Enterprise and more!

 - THE ORIGINAL DAVID | Fashion Designer | Rakiyat Zakari, whose fashions have been featured in Antenna, Lucky, Uptown, DC Style, Washington Post, Washington Life, WWD, Source, Essence and more!

 - DEKKA | Boutique Owner and Fashion Mogul | Joshua Tiktin, recent boutique opening was featured on Daily Candy and The Post Express and drew over 200 people for the ribbon cutting and opening. DEKKA has a unique approach to collective fashion designer development in DC and has an eye on some of the hottest up-and-coming designers on DC Streets. His vision is amazingly successful and has been the most talked about boutique even before its opening!

 - MAIN STREET DC | Executive Director, Yavoka Young, of Washington DC's local cooperative that provides assistance to those interested in learning how to occupy and or purchase real estate on Main Street programs in the DC area and has ALL the information on what you should do to get your retail space in Washington's most saught after up-and-coming areas.  

 - ART INSTITUTE OF WASHINGTON | Fashion and Business Instructor | Jacqueline Hart, who has well over twenty years in the fashion industry. She provides a wealth of knowledge on how to run your business with fashion sense. 

 - MaMi Magazine | Fashion Editor | Adrianne Mickens, whose recent magazine launch event at Indebleu was a total hit.  The launch party included a fashion show by DEKKA and so much more ...

Our speakers are hand picked and selected because of their individual and collective industry inside knowledge. 

BUSINESS AND BRUNCH seminars are designed to feature industry, corporate and small business professionals who have the knowledge, experience and dedication to the success of the small business community. They are invited by BUSINESS AND BRUNCH event planners, who researcha nd review professionals with unique stories to tell, so they in turn can help to bolster small business, encourage and infuse small business owners to "think outside of the box", so to speak. 

We are dedicated to helping individuals grow by networking and learning from experienced professionals, developing networking and talking one-on-one with those who can help YOUR business growth.

We strive to provide professionals who represent success, the kind that only "some" talk about and few have the opportunity to experience. For additional information about BUSINESS AND BRUNCH visit:  www.businessandbrunch.net