Fashion Expertise helps clients who want to launch a fashion business or expand their existing business.  With over 20 years of industry experience, Kerry Szymanski provides her knowledge of the fashion industry to entrepreneurs.  Ms Szymanski is a full-time Professor of Fashion Merchandising for the Art Institute of Ft Lauderdale.  She is a published author with books including: How to Survive a Layoff, 2002;  Advertising and the World Wide Web, contributing author, 1999. She also writes Gossip, a monthly newsletter for SassyBB.

Ms Szymanski started SassyBB, a purse boutique and sewing school in Fort Lauderdale, FL. She has several years of experience working in marketing for large corporations.  Her experience includes retail, direct and internet marketing for companies such as Bally Total Fitness, Harry and David and Duty Free Americas.  Kerry holds her MBA from the University of Oregon and BA in International Relations from Syracuse University.  International experience includes residency in Strasbourg, France, fluency in French and conversational Japanese.  In 2009, she was a judge for "Ms Hollywood USA", part of the Miss America pagaent circuit. In 2009, Ms Szymanski was voted one of the "40 under 40" rising business stars in Broward County by Gold Coast magazine. She has been featured in local and national magazines, newspapers and television programs.