Elizabeth Suzann
{{short description|Clothing manufacturing company}}
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| industry = Fashion
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| founded = {{Start date and age|2013}}
| founder = Elizabeth Pape
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| hq_location_city = Tennessee
| hq_location_country = United States
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Elizabeth Suzann was a slow fashion, direct-to-consumer clothing company founded in 2013. It was based in Nashville, Tennessee. After peaking as an operation with 42 employees and a 10,000-foot warehouse, the company announced its closure in April 2020, due to financial difficulties including the emerging COVID-19 pandemic.{{cite news |last1=Testa |first1=Jessica |title=Saying Goodbye to Elizabeth Suzann |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/21/style/coronavirus-elizabeth-suzann.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=June 11, 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=May 21, 2020}} In December 2020,{{citation needed |reason=The website does not provide a date for this reopening. |date=December 2022}} the founder opened a new business operating as Elizabeth Suzann Studio, staffed only by the founder and one assistant in a backyard workshop.{{cite web |title=Contact Us & FAQs |url=https://elizabethsuzannstudio.com/pages/contact-us-faqs |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210118101057/https://elizabethsuzannstudio.com/pages/contact-us-faqs |url-status=usurped |archive-date=January 18, 2021 |website=Elizabeth Suzann Studio |access-date=December 6, 2022}}
Background
Elizabeth Pape, the founder and CEO of Elizabeth Suzann, started making clothing items in her spare bedroom and selling them through an online Etsy store, before launching the Elizabeth Suzann line in late 2013.{{cite news |last1=Phelan |first1=Hayley |title=A Basics Line That Strives for Less-Is-More |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/27/t-magazine/elizabeth-suzann-fashion-designer-profile.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=April 16, 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=August 27, 2015}}{{cite web |title=Ask me anything professional |url=https://elizabethsuzann.com/blogs/stories/ask-me-anything-professional |url-status=dead |website=elizabethsuzann.com |access-date=2019-04-17 |archive-date=2019-04-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190417040550/https://elizabethsuzann.com/blogs/stories/ask-me-anything-professional }} About a year after launching, the brand reached $1 million in sales.{{cite news |last1=Lockwood |first1=Lisa |title=Nashville Designer Finds Success with ElizabethSuzann.com |url=https://wwd.com/business-news/retail/nashville-designer-finds-success-with-elizabethsuzanncom-8158728/ |access-date=April 16, 2019 |website=WWD |date=February 3, 2015}} As of 2017, Elizabeth Suzann clothing was manufactured in a warehouse in Nashville that had an in-house sewing staff, cutters, and fulfillment employees.{{cite news |title=A Nashville Couple Who (Literally) Lives at the Office |url=https://cupofjo.com/2017/04/elizabeth-suzann-house-tour/ |access-date=April 16, 2019 |website=Cup of Jo |date=April 27, 2017}}
On January 2, 2017, Pape wrote a blog post that detailed the cost of a garment from the Elizabeth Suzann line and compared it with the cost of a garment from a fast fashion retailer.{{cite web |title=Money Talk |url=https://elizabethsuzann.com/blogs/stories/money-talk |url-status=dead |website=Elizabeth Suzann |access-date=2019-04-17 |archive-date=2019-04-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190417040548/https://elizabethsuzann.com/blogs/stories/money-talk }}{{cite news |last1=Bain |first1=Marc |title=A fashion designer breaks down why some clothes are worth spending more on |url=https://qz.com/881183/a-fashion-designer-breaks-down-why-some-clothes-are-worth-spending-more-on/ |url-access=registration |website=Quartz |date=January 28, 2017}} Later that year, she appeared on an episode of the EconTalk podcast to explain the financial challenges behind running a profitable fashion brand while staying within the slow fashion movement.{{cite news |last1=Roberts |first1=Russ |website=EconTalk |title=Elizabeth Pape on Manufacturing and Selling Women's Clothing and Elizabeth Suzann |url=http://www.econtalk.org/elizabeth-pape-on-manufacturing-and-selling-womens-clothing-and-elizabeth-suzann/ |access-date=April 16, 2019}}
Products
Popularity
Brittany Howard of the Alabama Shakes rock band said she was a fan of the Elizabeth Suzann brand.{{cite web |title=Brittany Howard: Clothing Is... |url=https://elizabethsuzann.com/blogs/stories/brittany-howard-clothing-is |url-status=dead |website=elizabethsuzann.com |access-date=April 26, 2019 |archive-date=April 17, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190417052127/https://elizabethsuzann.com/blogs/stories/brittany-howard-clothing-is }}{{Promotional source|date=September 2020}}