Monte Monday

June 30, 2014

Welcome to MONTE MONDAYS! Every Monday for the next few weeks, we will feature our dear friend Monte Durham from TLC’s Say Yes to the Dress: Atlanta

 

LSGS: Many of our clients know you from “jacking” up brides on TLC’s Say Yes to the Dress: Atlanta. Many DON’T know that you have been in the fashion and beauty industry for years. How did you get started?

Monte: I was born in the hills of West Virginia. My father was quite the dapper dresser in college, and my mother was always a great dresser with an impeccable, understated sense of style. … I was always surrounded by changing fashions because of my three sisters. I tell everyone that when I started school, I started in a one-room schoolhouse that my grandfather helped build. [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”][Later] I went to a very small merchandising school … and went into department stores in visual merchandising (at the time, it was called display). When I transitioned to the sales floor and became a personal shopper … women would say to me they could never find anybody to alter their clothes properly or do their hair the way they wanted. I thought, “I can’t sew, but I can do hair!” I went to Graham Webb International and took the advanced course [in London] and then worked for Elizabeth Arden. [After that] I opened my own salon, Studio M at The Resort at Glade Springs in West Virginia.[/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container]

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