Own The Room

Shair Bashir, Founder - The Make-Up Box   I read the email once. Then I read it again. “Barclays Bank have approved your collaboration.” Wait. Am I dreaming? Is this really happening to me? I’m a mother raising three children single-handedly, carrying a dream I was once too afraid to speak aloud. And there it was, in black and white: in conjunction with Barclays Bank, I would be hosting Becoming Her, an event I had dreamt of for years. Years ago, I would never have believed it. Back then, I stood in three inches of water and watched everything I had built disappear.   Everything Underwater I had poured my heart into a clothing label, investing every last penny to build it from nothing. Beautiful handmade pieces, sold in Greenwich Market and crafted in a workshop I had turned into my own little atelier. Then the water came. Three inches may not sound like much. Spread across 1,600 square feet, it swallowed everything: my stock, my work, years of devotion. Gone. My heart sank. ...