Teen fashionista shows off designs, talks inspiration

>> mos teen girls are worried about school, bs a tir friends, butur nex "sr of tomorrow" is busy building a fashn empire,eet 16-year-old urey allegra, herealongse very wl establish fashion designer rache roy. good morning, laes. good morng.

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>> i fnd m inspirati everywhe, travelg, dfere movi even.

>> wow.

>> and rachel, you've bnn e busine a longtime. i ve.

>> you started out yng a well. not as tstoriedlady.

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>> howo you balance it with schoolnd t other tngs that 16-yr-olds do. u're a norma 16eaold rl.

>> i'm bu, i haveo social li anymoreut ieall love doing s i'm going to stick to it.

>> it's youredicion d passio what abo her brand? ho does sheevelophe courtney allegra and? we spent some timeogethe yesterday and got t learn a lot more about h buthey would say and the best advice i got when i was fir starting out is to really have a point of viewtoefend it to define it and to stick t ito matter what is gng on, what trend argoing on, really kw who you're designing for and als at i love, you alrdy have e-mmerce.

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>> she haser own website a you'relwaygoing to ve a customer if you have yourwn bsite. yodon't veo depen on others a that's key as well

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