Alexandra Shadrow ’10 is Turning Thrifting into a Community-Driven and Fashionable Business

Alexandra Shadrow ’10 is the founder of UNItiques: the fashion marketplace where millennial girls buy and sell fashion from their own closets. Alex inadvertently started her company out of her dorm room at Boston University (BU) after a scary encounter with a Craigslist creep during her junior year in school, where two-thirds of the student body are members of the UNItiques community. With UNItiques now thriving in over 600 cities, Alex has since been recognized by the likes of Forbes and The Huffington Post, speaks as a panelist at Harvard University, and many more. She has also appeared on TV as a winner of Lifetime's new hit show, "Project Runway Startup.”

UNItiques is fulfilling its mission of enabling younger girls to be entrepreneurs by turning their closets into stores and is currently partnered with Entrepreneur Magazine to close its Series A investment round. In the words of Christine Hunsicker, a fellow female entrepreneur who sold her first company to Yahoo for $850 million, "Alex will make it come hell or high water; she will eat through a wall."
 

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