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Los Angeles Celebrity Stylist Kim Apodaca Reveals How to Dress Well for Zoom Calls

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In June 2020, we learned to morph a sweats uniform into summer work-casual athleisure, and in June 2021, we finally gave away most of those stuffy, in-person business suits. Clothing has a scientific connection with our minds,” Apodaca says. In March 2020, we learned how to dress for Zoom calls from the shoulders up.

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Why Supporting Small Businesses This Holiday Season Is More Urgent Than Ever

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And although for some 2021 may finally feel like business as usual, the truth is many (if not most) small businesses still need our help. According to a September 2021 Small Business Pulse Survey (SBPS) by the U.S. Census, 67.5% Photo courtesy of Nuzzie. Number of employees: 5 Based in: Boston. Photo courtesy of MOTSI. Richer Poorer.

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What Leslie Jordan’s Legacy Can Teach Us About Pivoting to a Third Act

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A friend called from California and said, ‘You’ve gone viral,’” Jordan told Tulsa World in 2021. In 2008, pregnant actress Jessica Alba was washing new baby clothes with a detergent her mother recommended and broke out in hives. Its 2021 IPO, days after Alba’s 40th birthday, raised $412.8 And I said, ‘No, I’m fine.’ million.

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Not All Stories Have Happy Endings—For This Entrepreneur, It Was Still Worth It

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What started as an Etsy store expanded so substantially that celebrities such as Naomi Campbell and Candace Cameron Bure have worn her clothes in magazines , on TV and in their everyday lives. In July 2021, Deer received just 20 days notice that the print mill they’d worked with exclusively since 2014 was closing.

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Q&A: Bauble Stockings Founder on Turning a Family Tradition Into a Business

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It has also sparked collaborations with celebrities and popular fashion and lifestyle brands including Alice + Olivia, LoveShackFancy, Dogwood Hill and Draper James, the clothing line founded by Reese Witherspoon. Then Nicky went to the grand opening of [the women’s clothing brand] LoveShackFancy on Bleecker Street in New York.

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An 18-year blogging veteran, Ajayi covers all things culture with a critical yet humorous lens on her website Awesomely Luvvie and wrote the instant best-sellers Professional Troublemaker: The Fear-Fighter Manual (2021) and I’m Judging You: The Do-Better Manual (2016). The team has sold over $1 billion in 2021 in real estate sales.

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