Amanda Rango Empowers Fashion Founders to Scale Their Businesses

“Relationships are key and if they're genuine, and if you continue to plant those seeds and really nurture those networking relationships, they will just automatically turn into revenue and clients and business and collaborations.”

After decades of climbing the corporate fashion ladder, Amanda Rango decided to make the leap from big business to working directly with fashion founders. Today, Amanda is the founder of ARD Consulting and leads a team of experts in customized apparel product development to launch and scale fashion brands. ARD’s services include fashion design and development, sourcing and manufacturing, and marketing and styling. Tune in and hear the obstacles that Amanda has overcome as a woman entrepreneur, using connections for fundraising, and how technology is changing the fashion game.

What we talk about:  

• Recognizing which skills are transferable (03:59)
• The consulting process for clients (06:54)
• Leveraging your network (09:29)
• The exciting ways that the fashion industry is evolving (17:27)

Connect with Amanda:

• ARD Fashion Consulting
• @ARDFashionConsulting on IG
• LinkedIn

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