Grappling Business as a Fashion Designer? As a creative, focusing on business issues can be daunting. This is how our guest speaker, Beatrice Newman, felt when her father urged her to take a business course after getting her degree in fashion design. However, she quickly learned that business and fashion are intertwined and gaining business skills as a designer can make or break a brand. Using her love for heritage techniques and crochet, she has successfully built her brand Korlekie to what it is today, being featured in numerous publications and dressing some of the biggest celebs in the world.  Educating Future Fashion Entrepreneurs But she still had an itch to make a contribution to the fashion industry in a different way. Having grown in both business and fashion, she saw the vision of a course designed by a creative for creatives that took all of the things she learned from both school and entrepreneurship. In this episode we will take an in depth look at the things Beatrice has learned in her 10 plus years of entrepreneurship, and how that has helped her build her second venture, MODE, an online education platform. To learn more about MODE & sign up for your first course visit the MODE website. Get in contact with Beatrice: https://www.linkedin.com/in/korlekie Support the show-------- The show is recorded from Beyond Form, a venture studio building & investing in fashion tech startups with ambitious founders. We’d love to hear your feedback, so please do let us know if you’d like us to explore a topic of conversation. You can email us on [email protected]. If you’re an entrepreneur or fashion tech startup looking for studio support, then check out our website: beyondform.io