Fashionably Fitfat

📰 The Degree Program Bridging the Higher Education Gap for the Next Generation of Beauty Professionals ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: Francis Tesmer didn't initially plan on transforming the beauty industry. While building her decades-long career as a global entrepreneur, philanthropist, business executive and economic senator of the German Senate of Economy, Tesmer's perspective shifted after she lost her mother to cancer. "There was this moment in my life after that that I wanted to do something that would have a bigger impact on a lot of people, and I didn't know what that was," Tesmer tells Fashionista. She began exploring potential projects in the health industry, but her longtime friend Rolf Lohse, founder of Rolfs Global, soon pointed her toward the beauty space. Fueled by her "deep belief" in women's empowerment and success, Tesmer saw an opportunity to uplift beauty professionals in the U.S. — the overwhelming majority of whom are wom...