What Inspires nade baer as a Designer?

• It is an amazing gift to humans just to be brought to exist.
• Every living and breathing thing is beauty in and by itself.
• I am inspired by life itself and the five new lives I have created.
• Women all around me are the most influential and bring me the most artistic emotions.
• Music, books, art, performance, my environment, architecture, interiors, and fabrics are all things that motivate me as a designer to create and to inspire the customer.

Philosophy

I want to be a part of women feeling beautiful, powerful, and happy.

I have a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Purdue University with a minor in photography. I never thought over 20 years later how it would come to impact my career in fashion. I believe I have a point of view that shows throughout my work as designer and photograher. Being behind the camera is a valuable tool that adds both challenges as a creator and creativity as an artist.

Women have come a long way in our society and I am proud to be one that can wear more than just one hat. A women's success is not measured by her achievements, but measured by what obstacles that she has overcome. It can bring great power and strength to someone when they need it the most. I believe as humans we are changing, and evolving everyday, and we need to feed our curiosities and our thirst for learning, growing and achieving new goals. For me it was the thirst for a creative outlet and generating a business environment around me, it has always made me happy. As joyous as it could possibly be having the five most beautiful children in the world I still needed to have something that was for me. Everyone needs to fill a void, whether it is a small hobby or a large endeavor. We all need to live in the now, life is not a dress rehearsal. Take everyday and treat it as a golden gift.

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Photographs of nade were taken by dear friend Lisa Kusak.