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Luxury Parisian Fashion for Women
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Women and girls are change agents in their communities all over the world. When a woman’s mental health is supported, she is able to make change for herself, her family, and members of her community. For over a decade, we have been funding women’s mental health and empowerment work. We reaffirmed our commitment in 2018 when the founder of kate spade new york died by suicide, and today we continue to integrate mental health into our women’s and girls’ empowerment work globally.
An entrepreneur, fashion designer, and style specialist, Golnesa has a passion for organization, self-expression and creativity by way of “Closet Cleanse.” She has a re-Couture and Style with a Purpose mentality.
Owner of a sustainable, aesthetically-aware, fashion-forward Wear-House. She merged her mother’s tailoring business, Pari’s Boutique & Alteration in Pacific Grove, with another long-standing consignment store in Carmel, Deja Vu Consignment. As a Mother-Daughter design team, during the pandemic, Golnesa urbanized a high-end consignment boutique. Combining it with tailoring services in Pacific Grove in a unique Wear-House location to introduce a new way of shopping. “We are bringing back the authentic Fashion-House personalized experience.”
After studying business at CSUMC, and working for a Fortune 500 company in Silicon Valley, she made a wise decision to move back home to develop her mother’s thirty-year business. The goal is to provide clients with the tools they need to build the perfect wardrobe. To assist in saving time and money with the perfect fit.
In the last ten years, she has dressed many of Monterey County’s top businesswomen, artists, and entrepreneurs, for various events, charity fundraisers, and award shows. She has orchestrated and participated in fashion shows, photoshoots, and special events.
She is on the board for Seneca/Kinship Center and the chairperson for the annual Masquerade Ball. She has helped foster mental health for children and supported Alliance on Aging for the Elderly in the annual Trashion Show fundraisers for over ten years. She loves to mentor young fashionistas, teaching them design skills, tailoring, and business basics.
SHANTI RACKLEY: FOUNDER/CHIEF VISION OFFICER/CO-OWNERShanti Rackley was born and raised in Carmel Valley. As a child, she loved sewing, cutting the straps from her new patent Mary Janes (unbeknownst to her mama), while flipping through the World Atlas dreaming of the places she would travel. Daughter to a Mexican immigrant and a Mystic mama, Shanti has always been inspired by her cultural heritage, nature, and helping others. She earned a BA degree in psychology and social behavior from UCI, a MA in Organizational Behavior, and later a certificate from FIT in design.
Over the years Shanti has worked for some of the most talented ethical and sustainable brands in the industry including ethical jewelry designer Melissa Joy Manning, fair trade pioneers World of Good, sustainable footwear brand Coclico Footwear, and the original organic bedding company Coyuchi. In 2008 she joined the young and renegade team at Dolce Vita Inc, landing a pivotal role building a brand new division for the now famous footwear brand. It became clear, the demands of this fast fashion brand was not in alignment with her long term professional goals, so after 4 years she knew a change was needed.
In 2012 she left to start luxury artisan design brand TEJIDO and has since been sold to retailers around the world. She met her now business partner Taira in yoga and the stars aligned – the rest is history. Store 1 in Carmel Valley opened Dec 2020 + their second store opened in Carmel by-the-Sea Aug 2021!
TAIRA HUSTEDT: CHIEF CURATION OFFICER/ CO-OWNER
Taira grew up splitting her time between the Monterey Peninsula and San Diego. She remained at the beach for college and graduated with a BA in Communication from UCSB. She then set off for NYC where she attended the Fashion Institute of Technology, obtaining a BA in Fashion Merchandising & Buying. This turned into a decade of being immersed in the NYC fashion world where she consulted for some of the best, high-end specialty stores across the country and internationally. Her chief job was to seek out new and upcoming designers and trends, and then relay this to her stores so that they were at the forefront of trends and held exclusive rights to new designers. After squeezing all the fun she could out of NYC, she returned to her California roots and ended up settling back in her hometown to start a family. Back at the beach in Carmel you will find her with her two rowdy, toe-head boys and a heeler pup named Bodhi.
Parts Unknown is an upscale retail experience with an attitude toward adventure, travel, leisure, sports, and the great outdoors. Distinct types of apparel, footwear and related accessories for men and women featuring brands such as Brighton, Tommy Bahama, Kuhl, Pendleton, Olukai, Tilley, and Maui Jim. Come visit us in the Carmel Plaza for a new and unique fashion experience!
Abi was raised in Carmel, Indiana and has lived in Monterey for two years with her boyfriend and cat, Willa. She currently manages Parts Unknown in Carmel Plaza. Her passions include music (she’s a total Swiftie!), supporting/empowering women however she can, and the color pink!
Maresias Wear is a local Brazilian bikini brand. Each piece is handmade by single low-income mothers in the Santo André Favelas (slums) near São Paulo, Brazil.
Jade Vucina is the owner/designer and is also the sole owner of Terra Superfoods, a local health food restaurant. She is a Monterey Bay native with Brazilian roots who lived in Brazil for 10 years. Her two sons were born there and they have seen and experienced firsthand poverty in a 3rd world country. She is passionate about giving back to women in need.
After choosing the fabrics and designing the swimwear, they give sewing machines and teach the low-income single mothers how to properly make the bikinis and they get paid per bikini made! It’s a way where they can earn an income at home with their babies.
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