{"id":57,"date":"2022-11-20T23:47:50","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T23:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/koutureeyewear.com\/?page_id=57"},"modified":"2022-11-21T02:07:50","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T02:07:50","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/koutureeyewear.com\/?page_id=57","title":{"rendered":"NELISSA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nelissa began her career in the optical industry, in various facets of the business, which&nbsp;catapulted her career in designing eyewear.&nbsp; The first and only Caribbean born and self made eyewear designer. Below please find a brief summary of the milestones in her career.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1989 &#8211; With Canada\u2019s premier optical wholesale supplier of it\u2019s time, Imperial Optical, as an CSR in the Optical Machinery and Supply Dept.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1991 &#8211; In the retail aspect of the optical business.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1995 &#8211; With Marchon (one of the top 5 optical wholesalers in the world) as the International Administrative Manager.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1999 \u2013 Founded NNDC to market boutique fashion&nbsp;optical products&nbsp; to the Caribbean and&nbsp;Latin America.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2007 \u2013 Opened a \u201cstate of the art\u201d warehouse and showroom in North Miami Beach to accommodate the evolution of its business.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2008 \u2013 Changed the name of the company to better reflect the concept of a Fashion House, passionately bringing new categories of&nbsp;fashion focused products to the KOUTURE&nbsp;enthusiast internationally.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">KOUTURE is owned by Nelissa\u2019s company Kouture Ventures Inc.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nelissa began her career in the optical industry, in various facets of the business, which&nbsp;catapulted her career in designing eyewear.&nbsp; The first and only Caribbean born and self made eyewear designer. Below please find a brief summary of the milestones in her career.&nbsp;&nbsp; KOUTURE is owned by Nelissa\u2019s company Kouture Ventures Inc.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":104,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-57","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/koutureeyewear.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/koutureeyewear.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/koutureeyewear.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koutureeyewear.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koutureeyewear.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/koutureeyewear.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110,"href":"https:\/\/koutureeyewear.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57\/revisions\/110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koutureeyewear.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/koutureeyewear.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}