Tenneh Wilkins
Tenneh Wilkins is a New York based women’s wear fashion designer, currently developing her company “House of Rubi”
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Work status: | Living The Dream |
| Website: | http://www.facebook.com/HouseofRubi |
| Industries: | Education, Financial, Health, Information Technology, Internet, Lifestyle, Retail |
| Skills: | Business, Design, Languages, Marketing, Sales |
| Next step: | Develop business concept and company "House of Rubi" into a flourishing lifestyle brand. |
| Groups: | 6th Annual Queens StartUP! Business Plan Competition |
| Visas: | United Kingdom |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Employment opportunities, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding experts, Finding mentors, Finding team mates, Getting press, Giving back, Investing in projects, Learning about entrepreneurship, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Participating in a competition, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Raising money, Recruiting for my startup, Shadowing, Starting a company, Supporting my investments |
| Schools: | Academy of Art University, University of Rhode Island |
FULL BIO
Tenneh Wilkins is a women’s wear fashion designer living in New York City. She is currently developing her company “House of Rubi” which creates unique cocktail dresses for cosmopolitan women. House of Rubi and the Rubi Girl blog pay homage to world culture and artistic expression through fashion. Tenneh’s ultimate goals are to travel around the world, capture creativity and utilize her fashion brand to share her discoveries with everyone! She also will create a school of arts in her native homeland, Liberia. She lives by her motto ”Culture, Confidence, Creativity are the it in fashion."
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Britex Fabrics, San Francisco, CA |
| Position: | Fabric Consultant and Sales Associate |
| Description: | Stylized and illustrated innovate fashion designs with fabric and notion selections
Created advertising displays in reference to color themes, textures and fabric types Encouraged customers to explore creative and fun ways to express their personal style |
| Employer: | Bare Escentuals, San Francisco, CA |
| Position: | Sales Associate and Make-up Consultant |
| Description: | Demonstrated cosmetics application and techniques
Promoted skin care, beauty products and a healthy beauty regimen |
| Employer: | Lydia’s Tailoring, Providence, RI |
| Position: | Sales Associate and Seamstress Assistant |
| Description: | Aided in assembling and sewing designed garments
Designed garments and created necessary patterns Collected updated data of the women’s apparel industry |
| Employer: | Andrew Sports, New York, NY |
| Position: | Technical Designer Associate |
| Description: | Spec garments for excel data entry and garment production
Fit models Grade garments for technical packages Communicate technical data with overseas factories |
| Employer: | Pacific Alliance, Daisy Fuentes Department, New York, NY |
| Position: | Designer Assistant |
| Description: | Conceptualized, source and develop designs for fashion seasons
Illustrated detail technical sketches with Adobe Illustrator Developed technical packages for production |
| Employer: | Louise Paris, New York, NY |
| Position: | Technical Designer Assistant Freelance |
| Description: | Spec garments for excel data entry and garment production
Fitted Models Graded garments and created technical packages |
EDUCATION
| University: | Academy of Art University |
| Time period: | 2006 |
| Degree: | Master of Fine Arts in Fashion Design |
| University: | University of Rhode Island |
| Time period: | 2002 |
| Degree: | Textile Marketing and Design, BSc |
Tenneh's Startups (2)
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House of Rubi by Tenneh
House of Rubi is a "for progress" fashion company featuring unique world culture inspired cocktail dresses.
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Tenneh is Following (10)
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Ibibo
ibibo.com is India’s first entertainment and talent based social network. It gives the youth of India a unique platform to showcase their talent, express themselves, create their own social network, audience and fan club and hence get recognition.
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McNeill Designs for Brighter Minds
Finally - language as a game for the very first time. You've been Sentenced! is a seven time national award winner and loads of fun!
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Bonobos
Bonobos are pants that solve problems. They're better fitting, better looking, better pants.
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Craiglook
Craiglook combines Classified Sites with Yahoo Pipes and Google Maps to help you navigate them in the Web 2.0 way. Search by Zip/City, Preview pictures, reply to postings, set up alerts - from one convenient location
