About Us
Elegance In Style Incorporated was founded as a non profit organization in 1998 in Ellicott City, Maryland. Until 2000, EIS provided seminars and in-home workshops to women throughout the U.S., and in November of 2000 it began training women to become fashion consultants.
In 2001 its sister organization, Success In Style, was founded in Ellicott City, Maryland with the purpose of providing career wear to low-income women in the Baltimore area. More...
Today, the Trainers of the Elegance In Style Programs authorize independent fashion consultants to train using the Elegance In Style Fashion Consultant Training Program and its Focus Programs. In turn, these Authorized Trainers then offer the Program as part of their repertoire of services and may travel to reach women who reside in areas with limited opportunities and resources.
The Lead Trainer of EIS is Mary Sheehan Warren who works as a fashion consultant in the Washington DC area.
Mary is also part of a review committee of peers which grants authorization to fashion consultants. More about Mary...
The Training Curriculum was designed by the fashion consultants who founded the non profit organization, Elegance In Style, Incorporated. They are:
Patti Francomacaro (Founder)
Patti has over 45 years of experience in fashion. She graduated from the Ardis School of Design in Washington DC and worked from her home as a fashion designer until 1985 when she opened Seasonal Impressions, a high-end women's apparel retailer in Ellicott City, Maryland. Patti was also an Executive Director and Trainer for Beauty For All Seasons, and has provided numerous community workshops and television appearances throughout her region. Currently, she serves on the Board of Directors for Success In Style, Incorporated. More about Success In Style.
Jeannette Kendall (Founder)
Jeannette is a graduate of the Fashion Institute of Technology of New York. She worked as both a fashion designer in New York City and in fashion retail in Washington DC. She also owned her own line of cosmetics and did the majority of training for EIS until 2001. Jeannette is now the Executive Director of Success In Style, Incorporated, and in 2005 became the second place finalist for the international philanthropic award, Volvo for Life Award. See Jeannette's story in Family Circle Magazine.
Mary Sheehan Warren (Founder and Current EIS Lead Trainer)
Mary is a former teacher and graduate of the University of Maryland, College Park. She was trained as a fashion consultant by the forerunner of EIS (Grace and Elegance) in 1996, and has been providing the majority of training programs for EIS since 2001. Mary works as a fashion consultant in Wisconsin and Illinois, and recently authored the book, It's So You! Fitting Fashion to Your Life. (Spence Publishing, Texas) More about Mary...
The Training Programs
The Elegance In Style Programs are owned and edited by Trainers who select independent fashion consultants (Authorized Trainers) to use for their own fashion consultant training programs.
The Programs consists of the Introductory Course and two intensive Focus Programs
- The Elegance In Style Fashion Consultant Training Program is a three day intensive course. more...
- The Focus Program, How to Speak to Teens About Fashion, is a day-long seminar on the art of communicating to teenage girls about fashion.
- The Focus Program, Advanced Color Analysis, is a day-long seminar on the Color Palette Method of Color Analysis.
Editorial review of the Program is only completed by a review committee of Trainers. If modifications and additions to the Curriculum are desired by an Authorized Trainer, a proposal for these modifications must be submitted to the Lead Trainer.
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"The training program helped me to create a professional appearance and gave me all of the tools I needed to assist other women in being able to transform their lives through education in fashion and style creation. The training program also provided me with the skills I now use to assist teens with their fashion choices."
- Annie M. Lang
Pittsburgh, PA
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