Did you know the fashion industry is responsible for 10 percent of global greenhouse emissions? However, Darden First Year student Elizabeth Blankenship (Class of 2022) has a solution. Her contemporary fashion venture, Coton, uses only existing materials, bought directly from other luxury fashion brands and mills across Europe, to produce its clothes. We recently connected with Blankenship to talk about her MBA journey, the inspiration for her venture and the importance of doing the hardest thing first.
Experience Darden #258: Meet Carlos Bortoni (MBA/M.Ed ’19), Senior Director, Tech Hub, Batten Institute
Experience Darden #257: Meet Jen Coleman, Executive Director, Armstrong Center for Alumni Career Services
Experience Darden #256: Women@Darden Spotlight | Executive Fellow and Professor of Practice Carolyn Miles (MBA ’88)
Experience Darden #255: Spotlight on UVA Venture Capital Conference
Experience Darden #254: Student Spotlight | Sloane Grey
Experience Darden #253: Meet Vincent Truong and Jill Howland, DSA President and DSA Executive Vice President
Experience Darden #252: Student Spotlight | Jon Rickords
Experience Darden #251: Meet Anna Fife (MBA ’14), Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives, Batten Institute
Experience Darden #250: Student Spotlight | Aidan Connell
Experience Darden #249: Student Spotlight | Yonah Greenstein
Experience Darden #248: Student Spotlight | Ty Sheets
Experience Darden #247: Women@Darden Spotlight | Senior Associate Dean Yael Grushka Cockayne
Experience Darden #246: Darden’s Global Courses | Marc and Shizuka Modica
Experience Darden #245: Student Spotlight | Ibukunoluwa Aiyemo
Experience Darden #244: Student Spotlight | Seiver Jorgensen, MBA/ME
Experience Darden #243: Office Hours Spotlight | In Conversation with Professor Jim Naughton
Experience Darden #242: Office Hours Spotlight | In Conversation with Professor Les Alexander
Experience Darden #241: Looking Back on the Fall Semester | Melissa Thomas-Hunt & Yael Grushka-Cockayne
Experience Darden #240: Spotlight on the GWIB Conference
Experience Darden #239: Student Spotlight | First Generation and Low-Income College Student Initiative
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