Cara Difiore
So to start off on my new blog I watched the latest Lisa Frank documentary that just came out on amazon prime recently and I have my thoughts about it.
first off I wanted to talk about it since it interests me and I was always a fan of her work since she and her work was popular so full of life, color, and character in the 80’s, 90’s and early 2000’s when I was a kid I was born in 1999 but I was a 2000’s kid. She and her brand went from being everywhere to bankrupt in a few years which is crazy to think about.y
well to start off to explain what this documentary is about I’ll start off with her backstory just so you know to those who don’t Lisa Frank was born and raised in Bloomfield hills, Michigan she’s always had a eye for art and fashion. Lisa’s father was a art collector and introduced her and encouraged her to expand her horizon to the work of such pop art artists as Peter Max. She is a 1972 graduate of the Cranbrook Kingwood school a preparatory school in Bloomfield, Michigan. Her entrepreneurial spirit was evident when she brought Native American jewelry to college and resold it in Michigan.
She went to college in Tucson, Arizona and then started her own company and hired a bunch of people and ended up moving there. People would say she was a complex person other days she was encouraging and happy if you created what she wanted other days she was demanding and would get disappointed or mad if you didn’t Then the business got big and more employees. After the new boss James came along and soon enough they got too close and got married and became a team and had two sons and then started showing up less and working from home while raising her two sons who she doesn’t talk to anymore and favorers the other one. Things got worse and the employees would get screwed over with the schedules, hours, and their work and then ended up getting fired or dropping and going bankrupt and her warehouse got abandoned and still remains it as of now and is on sale for lease.
After going bankrupt she was laying low for awhile then tried to make a comeback, making a collaboration with a brand from new jersey called “Glamor Dolls” went to a good success to a bad turn since she bilked repeatedly for hundreds of thousands of dollars after their successful kickstarted campaign to create a line of themed products went south and another entrepreneur brand called Tassiefairy called Lisa out for directly appropriating her ideas and being evirated her former apartment.
So here are my thoughts I totally don’t look at her work the same way now after watching this documentary and look at it in shock and disgust. I hope she gets her karma.
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