{"id":7299,"date":"2018-03-09T17:04:24","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T17:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2018\/03\/09\/womans-work-wear-upstart-gets-ready-to-pop\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:01:06","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:01:06","slug":"womans-work-wear-upstart-gets-ready-to-pop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/womans-work-wear-upstart-gets-ready-to-pop\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman&#8217;s work wear upstart gets ready to pop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With influencers like Hillary Clinton,\u00a0Huma Abedin and Brooklyn Decker who sport Argent work attire, the company co-founded by\u00a0Sali (Sumer) Christeson (Class of 2007) \u00a0and Eleanor Turner is well on its way to charting new territory. The women&#8217;s work wear firm is seeking funding to branch into new markets and shopping experiences. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mergermarket\/2018\/03\/08\/womans-work-wear-upstart-gets-ready-to-pop\/#4482bf531076\">Forbes<\/a> <\/strong>magazine caught up with Christeson who talks about pop-up shops, venture capital and expansion. A Furman business and accounting graduate, Christeson co-founded the San Francisco-based Argent in 2016. The company is known for its fashion-forward, utilitarian take on women&#8217;s clothing. Learn more about the company <a href=\"https:\/\/argentwork.com\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With influencers like Hillary Clinton,\u00a0Huma Abedin and Brooklyn Decker who sport Argent work attire, the company co-founded by\u00a0Sali (Sumer) Christeson (Class of 2007) \u00a0and Eleanor Turner is well on its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":7300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3,20,6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-alumni","category-business-and-accounting","category-in-the-news","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7299","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=7299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}