Who are personal shoppers, and what do they do? may be a question on your mind. Dolly Mungai claims that she makes a career by shopping for other people. Furniture and groceries are among the many things that personal shoppers might buy, but the majority of their purchases are clothes and accessories.
Dolly Mungai began her career at Harrolds as a salesperson and developed a reputation with prestigious international brands like Balenciaga and Gucci. Since her early years, when she would spend hours poring over fashion periodicals, she has always had a passion for fashion. She turned her love into a multimillion dollar business empire in the United Kingdom, and now that she’s returned to Kenya, she plans to expand it there.
Early Years
In London, the fashionista celebrated her fourth birthday. Dolly’s mother accepted a chance to pursue a career in therapy in the UK without giving it any thought. The personal shopper described how her love in photography began when she was a little child in an article that was posted on Fotophreak.
“I have loved fashion ever since I was just six years old. As was typical for small children her age, I would always wind up in the magazine area when we would go shopping, according to a portion of her account in the online newspaper.
Dolly, who will be 32 in 2021, credits her mother with instilling in her a strong work ethic and a desire to succeed. She views her mother and her as having a close bond that goes beyond friendship. Dolly’s mother imparted wisdom on her regarding womanhood, money, courage, and a close and sincere relationship with oneself.
She struggles with reading and writing because of her dyslexia, and she also has trouble remembering things like appointments and passwords. By doing this, she has surmounted numerous obstacles and is now tackling bigger obstacles, such as a shift in society’s mentality. She thinks that by returning, she would change how parents and society as a whole view dyslexics.
Career
At Harrolds, Dolly Mungai developed relationships with YSL, Prada, and other famous companies. She began receiving recommendations and soon embarked on a solopreneurship path. The amount of money she was earning for her employers served as her primary driving force to practice alone. At the age of 20, she left her job to start her own business as a personal shopper.
She only need a few business cards to start her new model, and she was able to operate it from the comfort of her bedroom. I had won my dream job since it required providing a service rather than a product, as she put it in her own terms. I chose this path even though I already considered myself a product.
Her duties included organizing closets, taking customers shopping, and finding new clothing.
She has worked with the largest brands in the world while traveling to 53 different countries in her capacity as a personal shopper. These include the Crystal Palace team, Aliko Dangote, a millionaire, Paul Pogba of Manchester United, a retired football legend, and David Beckham’s wife, Victoria Beckham.
About dyslexia
Dolly Mungai is an activist working to raise awareness of dyslexia in addition to being a fashion expert and aspiring businesswoman. According to Mayoclinic, students with this illness have trouble detecting speech sounds and learning how they link to letters and words, which makes it difficult for them to read.
Late talking, learning new words slowly, and a delay in learning to read are some of the symptoms of dyslexia. Dolly had a hard problem remembering numbers and keeping track of deadlines.
Dolly stated in an interview with Amina Mohammed that she wanted to demystify dyslexia in Kenya since there was a false perception about dyslexics in Africa. Even after receiving a dyslexia diagnosis, notable figures Whoopi Goldberg, Steve Jobs, Octavia Spencer, and CNN News Anchor Anderson Cooper went on to achieve success.
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