Carushka Jarecka is founder of Carushka Bodywear. When she started her own company in 1978, at the age of 25, with only $3,000, Carushka knew that to be a success in the competitive fashion industry, she would need to create a niche that reflected how women feel about themselves. "My greatest strength as a business woman is originality. Our corporate slogan, 'Expect the Unexpected' is what I always want to provide the customers with."
Carushka Jarecka earned a degree from the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in 1973, as well as a couture diploma from the Trippon School of Design.
Well first of all the fabric that I first designed with, it was cotton lycra. It came out of Germany. The machines cost about I don't know, three hundred thousand dollars and nobody wanted to buy them here in America. And I found this fabric at a closeout warehouse and when I started the business...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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