Shawnie GrantShawnie Grant started her professional career within the fashion industry in 2009 when she founded a charity organization Tailored Hearts, which reconstructs gently worn garments, and donates them to teenage girls in need living in Houston, Texas. Sh has years of experience in fashion design, global fabric sourcing, import/export, as well as research and development through her business Tailored Boutique, which was started in 2013. Her experience extends to the media world, where she co-hosted fashion segments to promote her clothing brand Tailored on a local new channel in Houston, KHOU 11, which is a CBS-affiliated television station. She began her personal journey with Fashion Beyond Borders: Exploring the Global Fashion Industry in 2015 when she made the decision to move to Shenzhen, China to work side-by-side with local clothing manufacturers to produce her clothing brand Tailored. During that time, she started writing fashion curriculums and taught them in Shenzhen, Shanghai, and Morocco. In 2017, she taught Fashion Beyond Borders: Exploring The Global Fashion Industry curriculum at New York University Shanghai in Shanghai, China to high school students desiring to start careers within the fashion industry. She followed with Fashion Beyond Borders: Exploring the Global Fashion Industry course book, which is now sold globally, offering countless others the opportunity to learn the necessary steps to start and manufacture a fashion brand. Shawnie was the first fashion consultant to teach a fashion course at New York University Shanghai NYUSPS and is the first to teach garment manufacturing workshops Texas Southern University located in Houston, Texas. Fashion Beyond Borders: Exploring the Global Fashion Industry will be taught at TSU during the Fall 2018-2019 academic year. Shawnie is currently a graduate student in University of Houston MBA program concentrating in international business. The information in this book was developed from Shawnie's personal experiences while studying and working abroad. Learn more about Tailored Boutique's fashion consulting services at www.tailoredboutique.com. Read More Read Less