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1. Maureen Kelly

Maureen Kelly is the founder of Tarte Cosmetics. Kelly is an educated girl with money on here mind and a dream in here eyes. A self-confessed beauty-product junkie from birth, she is also a devoted academic and jock, complete with two masters degrees in psychology. So its only natural to say she has the complete package every man wants - beauty, brains, and brawn. Kelly’s beauty cosmetic line launched in 2000 at a Manhattan-based department store. Ph.D. or not, Kelly still owes much of her success to hitting the books. “If you want to start your own beauty company, then I’d suggest you do your homework. Find out what’s out there and what’s missing. You need to fill a niche—ask yourself what makes your company different. After that, it’s all about research!”

2. Holly Dunlap

Holy Dunlap is the creative director and founder of Hollywould. Dunlap started her fashion career at the age of seventeen. Graduated from Parsons Design School in Paris and landed a job at the haute couture salon of Christian Lacroix. Returned back to the States where she was the head designer at Lilly Pulitzer for 3 years. After that it’s only fitting that she would start her own line one day. Hollywould was launched in Spring 2000 with her starlet-inspired shoe line. Dunlap has now expanded here line to clothing and accessories. “I knew what I wanted to do and was really focused from when I was little”.

3. Tamara Mellon

Tamara Mellon is the president and founder of a line of designer shoes called Jimmy Choo. Tamara was born in London with a strong understanding of both fashion and business because her mother was a former Chanel model and her father was a successful entrepreneur. Mellon worked at various places before becoming the accessories editor for British Vogue where her fashion instinct noticed a lack of luxury goods accessories in the market. In 1996 Mellon joined forces with Jimmy Choo with an idea of launching a ready-to-wear shoe company, then opened her first shop in London back in 1997.

4. Natalie Massenet

Natalie Massenet is the Chairman and founder of NET-A-PORTER.COM. After working as a fashion journalist for several years Massenet launched Net-a-porter.com in June 2000 after realizing that shops did not exist online for designer goods at that time. The company started off with a group of 5 friends and colleagues, Net-a-porter was created with modest funds but big dreams and ambitions. Today there staff has grow to over 100 people and an online partnerships with Vogue.com, JimmyChoo.com and Chloe.com.

5. Stella McCartney

Stella McCartney is an English Fashion Designer. She is the daughter of former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney and his first wife Linda. At just 15, she was already working with fashion heavyweight Christian Lacroix on his first couture collection. She later went on to study fashion design in London, and received plenty of attention at her graduation runway show modeled by Naomi Campbell, Yasmin Le Bon and Kate Moss – for free! After launching her own line, McCartney signed on as chief designer at Chloe, then later left in 2001 to develop her own label as part of the Gucci group, and opened her New York store in 2002. Good for her.

Notables;

Andrea lake is the founder and CEO of four unique companies and two more new ones coming soon. “You’re fired” is the last thing she heard from Donald Trump on the show “The Apprentice”.

Michelle Mone is a highly successful entrepreneur and marketer and is the founder and co-owner of MJM International Ltd. They are a leading designer of lingerie brand and a favourite amongst celebrities.

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