10-Year-Old Entrepreneur Creates Fashion With Message
Dasia Dawson has a book of sketches filled with designs for jeans, jewelry and other clothing.
But Dasia isn’t a student at the Fashion Institute of Technology, or even Willingboro High School. Dasia is a fourth-grader at J. Cresswell Stuart Elementary School.
Dasia may be only 10 years old, but with the help of her parents and other family members, she recently launched a jewelry line called TUTU Luv Me, which they hope to expand into a full clothing line later this year.
“She had the idea, and I took it from there,” her father, Marcus Dawson, said Friday.
“TUTU” stands for “teach you to teach us.” The Dawsons say TUTU Luv Me is more than a brand — it’s a campaign.
Dasia’s mother, Shean Dawson, said they want to use the jewelry and clothing line to teach young girls to love themselves. To carry out that idea, they plan to hold monthly workshops at the Kennedy Center that will feature positive role models for girls.
Photo by Burlington County Times.
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