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Gretchen Parsons’s Biography

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The idea for Pattern to Plan came to me when one of my Parsons Fashion Marketing students reached out to have me mentor her. Selina and her sister Carmen were planning to start a full-scale fashion business in their home of Lagos, Nigeria. That was 2012. Today the sisters have a thriving fashion design wholesale and retail business called Republic of Foreigner.

I had been supporting larger fashion brands, those maybe 3-5 years in business ---> Learn about the work I do with existing fashion com…