Meet Bianca and Bridgette Tatum

Today we’d like to introduce you to Bianca and Bridgette Tatum.

Bridgette and Bianca Tatum are twin sisters who have always had a renowned passion for business and women’s style. In 2012, they began a journey to create a style for the millennial woman who wears several hats as students, businesswomen, innovators, and much more. Bridgette and Bianca launched Liz & Bee Online Boutique in the Fall of 2012. During a successful five year reign, they were able to capture the business of women across the states. As time progressed and college days swiftly passed their purpose and intent began to evolve. As careers and family life grew, they began to seek a larger audience. Liz & Bee served its purpose. Bridgette and Bianca began to think about inspiring style on a larger scale.
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A woman is a complex being full of passion, drive, desire, intellect and intuition. EightTwenty91 provides style for every woman no matter her age, background, ethnicity or size. We provide accessories and apparel ranging from classic and chic to fun and funky. Our selection is not specifically for one type of woman. We aspire to give all women the power to excel in all of their dreams. EightTwent91 has fashion and style for every woman.

As their business continues to evolve, the Duo cultivated an idea of a new age fashion experience! Premiering their mobile fashion boutique at the top of the year. They are currently traveling around the west Georgia area sharing their experience with shoppers all over. The truck is fully equipped with clothing racks, a full body- lighted mirror and surround sound, bring fashion to you!

Has it been a smooth road?
The biggest struggle that we have had along the way, has been mostly mental. Deciding to take the safe route and work for large corporations, with 401K, annual raises, and great benefits, or betting it all, including my family and livelihood, on a dream.

A more quantitative struggle has been cultivating the proper business relationships. Although Fashion Trucks are more popular in the West and North, the south has not experienced much of it. The EightTwenty91 fashion truck is 1 of 6 fashion trucks in metro Atlanta area. Finding the proper events and networks to attend and be apart of has presented quite a task for us.

We source new opportunities daily and look forward to expanding our team. We want to give young women the opportunity to work for a company that they can grow in, or use as a viable stepping stone in the fashion industry.

We’d love to hear more about your business.
We cater to the millennial woman. We like to think that we have grown up with our audience. As we have transitioned from college and graduate school students to career women, mothers and entrepreneurs, our style has evolved as well.

Being a working woman and a working mother gives you an overall sense of responsibility and self, but also forces you to make your looks work for more than one occasion. We take pride in shopping for pieces that can work for lunch, brunch, and after hours with the girls. We pride ourselves with stocking our store with timeless pieces with the occasional trend look. We enjoy setting ourselves apart by creating fashion and style for the everchanging millennial woman.

Is our city a good place to do what you do?
Atlanta is such a great place for business. It’s literally the land of opportunity. Our core circles are filled with entrepreneurs, teachers, lawyers, doctors and folks in the entertainment industry. If you are starting your business here, we recommend honing in on your particular craft. There are markets for everything and it is easy to get lost in all of the different things that take place in Atlanta.

There are several hubs in our city, it would be nice to see more of a collaborative effort from the communities to bring people together. You can find a workshop happening every weekend for business. I can only imagine the possibilities of bringing them all together.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.eighttwenty91.com
• Phone: 706-333-3869
• Email: [email protected]
• Instagram: eighttwenty91
• Twitter: eighttwenty91

Image Credit:
Cat Harper Photography

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