Tempo Kenosha April 2022 Luncheon

Barbara Keisman started her career as a fashion model in Cleveland doing advertisements for the local department stores. A few years later she moved to Chicago, where Barbara continued in the fashion industry by teaming up with her husband to shoot fashion for a few department stores. It was while they were fashion photographers that Barbara designed a coat for herself. Whenever she wore the coat, men and women would ask me where she had gotten the coat. Realizing she had a talent for designing, Barbara re-designed the coat and took it to the Chicago Apparel Center wondering if a showroom would be interested in selling it to the stores during market. A showroom accepted it and within a short period of time, Barbara realized she was in over her head and decided to put designing on hold as she had a two-year-old at home to raise.

Soon enough she…