Meet Pink Hen, a line of elevated vintage-inspired clothing for infants and children based by mom-of-two Stacey Fraser. We’re highlighting the model as a part of our annual By Women sequence, which spotlights the best women-owned products and companies. We’re dedicated to giving feminine founders who personal 51% or extra of their enterprise a platform, because it not solely permits them to introduce their good merchandise to a large and doubtlessly new viewers, but it surely additionally helps you—the reader—uncover actually cool stuff.
Stacey Fraser has trend in her blood. Each her grandmothers had been within the business, instilling in her a love of textiles and vintage-inspired patterns. But it surely wasn’t till she grew to become a mom that she started to dream up her personal designs. Whereas on a yr break from her company clothes profession, Fraser started making clothes for her daughters utilizing materials she had collected.
“Individuals would cease me to ask the place their outfits had been from, and the extra I heard ‘it is best to promote these,” the extra I believed—why not?” she tells Glamour. “I had spent 15 years constructing manufacturers for others, so possibly it was time to take the leap and construct one thing of my very own. I’ve at all times been drawn to textiles, coloration, and storytelling by means of cloth, and that has remained on the coronary heart of Pink Hen ever since.”
She began Pink Chicken in 2006, and it quickly grew to become a favourite for mothers trying to find further particular, vintage-inspired clothes and clothes for his or her little women (there’s additionally a boys line, Blue Rooster). Fraser chatted with us about incorporating household into her model and her favourite a part of dressing kids.
Glamour: How do you steadiness motherhood and entrepreneurship?
Stacey Fraser: Beginning Pink Hen was, partly, about creating extra steadiness in my life. I had been main a design crew at The Hole, touring consistently, and dealing 50-60 hour weeks. I needed extra flexibility—not only for myself, however for different working mothers, too.
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