FashionValet.com, an online marketplace that once stocked over 400 brands across Southeast Asia, became a major regional player in the fashion industry but, by 2022, she had wound the venture down, shifting her focus to her own in-house modest fashion brands, dUCK and Lilit. The silver lining? By 2022, Yusof had built a network of 14 physical stores across Malaysia and Singapore and sold more than 3 million scarves from just one of her brands. Today, we unpack Vivy’s journey, the cost of building a brand around herself, her regret on not acting on her gut and her BILLION DOLLAR AMBITIONS for her next decade in the modest fashion industry.
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Intro
04:27 - Vivy's upbringing
09:58 - The 'Celebrity' factor
13:15 - The cost of influence on Vivy and her family?
17:48 - The beginnings of Fashion Valet
23:15 - Fadza's role & when your co-founder is your husband
37:10 - Fashion Valet failing, the pivot
44:28 - The rise of the haters
51:35 - The evolution to modest fashion
57:07 - Vivy's relationship with God
1:03:44 - Billion Dollar Questions
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Find out more about Vivy: / vivyyusof
Get her book now on Amazon: amzn.to/3Jk7NGd
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