What happens when the vision you have for your life is suddenly challenged by your physical vision?
Key Will Voice sits down with Taquiela Wright, engineer and founder of Delisa Rose Luxury Lingerie, for a candid conversation about reinvention, resilience, entrepreneurship and purpose.
After more than two decades in engineering, Taquiela took an unexpected leap into luxury fashion, ultimately showcasing her designs at New York Fashion Week and in Paris. But at the height of that momentum, an advanced glaucoma diagnosis forced her to confront the possibility of losing her sight—and reconsider what success, health and her future would look like.
Taquiela opens up about the fear and depression that followed her diagnosis, losing her mother, the family roots behind Delisa Rose, self-funding a luxury brand while continuing her engineering career, and why she now says she is “designing from a purpose standpoint.”
She also gets candid about being a Black woman navigating both engineering and luxury fashion, the realities of manufacturing lingerie, and what it actually takes to turn fashion visibility into a sustainable business.
Then things lighten up for Keys to the Street, as Taquiela gives the men a crash course in buying lingerie for their significant other—from sizing and choosing the right pieces to the one rule every man should remember: know your woman.
It’s a conversation about losing sight of the life you expected—and discovering a bigger vision for what comes next.
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