{"id":27713,"date":"2023-09-18T21:14:19","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T01:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=27713"},"modified":"2024-08-21T13:41:55","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T17:41:55","slug":"sali-christeson-07-talks-fashion-furman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/sali-christeson-07-talks-fashion-furman\/","title":{"rendered":"Sali Christeson &#8217;07 talks fashion, Furman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University business alumna Sali (Sumer) Christeson &#8217;07, founder and CEO of <a href=\"https:\/\/argentwork.com\/\">Argent<\/a>, spoke to Furman alumna Leigh Savage &#8217;94 (political science) of TOWN magazine about women&#8217;s work wear and how it can build confidence for professionals in a post-COVID world. The story ran <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/argent-ambitious-new-classics\/\">last year<\/a>, and as classic threads are timeless, the piece ran again in the August issue of <a href=\"https:\/\/towncarolina.com\/argent-ambitious-new-classics\/\">TOWN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Christeson reflected on her time at Furman. &#8220;I had the most incredible Furman experience,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It was such a pivotal growth period for me, mainly for developing the social and leadership skills that are essential for running a successful business. My favorite part of my experience was networking. I was always on the hunt for social activities and looking to form relationships with fellow students. While I didn\u2019t know then that I would end up in fashion one day, the foundational learning that I gained from Furman are what ultimately gave me the confidence to take the leap and embark on my journey with Argent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In addition to her bachelor&#8217;s from Furman, Christeson holds a master&#8217;s from the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina. She received The Tom A. Triplitt Outstanding Young Alumni Award in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sali (Sumer) Christeson &#8217;07, founder and CEO of Argent, is featured in TOWN magazine. Leigh Savage &#8217;94 asks Christeson about how the women&#8217;s work wear company came to be and the path that led the business alum to the world of fashion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":21913,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,20,6,32,1645],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-business-and-accounting","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs","category-town-magazine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33768,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27713\/revisions\/33768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}