“Vanessa Saracino is the founder and spokesperson for a new movement and a Christian clothing line called be• YOU• ti-ful. She is a single mother of a beautiful teenager named Alexa and cares for her wonderful parents, Maria, and Rocco Ciano. It is her love and passion for fashion that earned her a degree in Fashion Design from the Fashion Institute of Tech-nology in New York City. Not knowing how to draw, she started through their Continuing Education Program and through hard work and determination earned a spot in the Full Time Program and graduated in 1993. Vanessa went on to design for Kikomo, Ltd., Gloria Vanderbilt and through her unparalleled integrity and perseverance got the role as the Design Director for Blassport, a division of Bill Blass. She built that division from 8 million dollars to 32 million in 14 months and travelled the world 10 times over on business. Wanting to start her family, she created her own consulting company and consulted for major brands such as Ralph Lauren, Gap/Old Navy, Elie Tahari, Rebecca Taylor and Speigel/ Newport News while teaching fashion and computer aided design at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York. After a divorce in 2015, she moved back to NJ, and concentrated her efforts on raising her daughter and being there for her and her parents. Covid in 2020 put a halt to her career in NYC and she had the breakthrough that changed her life. Vanessa found an amazing mentor and aligned herself with the right people that helped her melt her love of God and Christianity with her beautiful heart and love of fashion together with her family with her beautiful heart and love of fashion together with the support of her family and her closest friends. She just designed a line of exclusive fashionable Christian women’s t-shirts with her own inspirational quotes and bible scriptures and a small line of contemporary sportswear and plans to sell her line exclusively online. Her future plans include continuing to write, create a challenge and a membership site to help minister to women who have been beautifully broken and bring them to the fullness of their destiny through INSPIRATION. FASHION. FAITH.This is be• YOU• tiful! And so are you! 🌸 “Instagram: https:// www.instagram.com/ vanessacianosaracino/ Personal Facebook: https:// www.facebook.com/ profile.php? id = 1302496584”— Thriving Beyond Crisis: Conversations with Resilient Entrepreneurs by Divya Parekh, Lisa Marie Pepe, et al.https://a.co/7s5Ou9GRead more about this authorRead less about this author