Alysse Bryson and Libby Sundgren sit down with Seattle fashion icon Terri Morgan, owner and director of TCM Models and Talent, on this episode of BEATS WORKING. With over 35 years in the industry, Terri shares how the world of fashion events has adapted post-pandemic, the realities behind inclusivity on the runway, the essential blend of grit and creativity in her business, and plenty of behind-the-scenes stories…some glamorous, some delightfully chaotic! If you’ve ever wondered what really happens backstage at fashion week — or what it takes to build a legacy in fashion — this episode is for you.
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Alysse Bryson [00:00:00]:
And as I went to jokingly spin, I was wearing platforms. My foot went back off the platform, but it went down into one of the up lights. Which was hot, right? It was hot. And so my knee jerk reaction was to grab the wall that was behind us. But it wasn’t a real wall. It was a fake wall. It was a styrofoam wall. And I fell backwards through it like the Incredible Hulk.
Libby Sundgren [00:00:27]:
Oh, no.
Alysse Bryson [00:00:27]:
And it was right as the show was over. So everybody is le walking by. And so now here’s what I say. Girl code. This is where my girls did rally. They. They swarmed me to be like, we got a man down, right? And so they swarmed me. And.
Alysse Bryson [00:00:43]:
And so then it gets worse. It actually gets worse. Welcome to Beats Working Winning the game of events, where we share stories and strategies to turn any event or life moment into something unforgettable.
Libby Sundgren [00:00:55]:
Events are wild, and the people who work in them are some of the most resilient human humans on earth. If you know, you know.
Alysse Bryson [00:01:03]:
So come with us behind the curtain for a look at their most memorable experiences.
Libby Sundgren [00:01:08]:
As they say, the show must go on. So let’s get on with the show.
Alysse Bryson [00:01:18]:
Welcome back to another episode of Beats Working. Today’s guest is a tried and true pro in the fashion and event space. Terry Morgan, owner and director of TCM Models and Talent, a Seattle based agency that she’s led since 1979. Obviously, she started it when she was like, five. With over 35 years of experience producing major fashion shows for the Bellevue Collection and the Seattle Wedding show and more, she has helped shape the region’s fashion scene. And that is how Libby and I came to know her. Way back in our magazine days. She’s a mentor, a stylist, a fan, fierce advocate for talent development, and yes, she’s also the proud mom.
Alysse Bryson [00:02:03]:
And Grandma Terry’s here to pull back the curtain on what it really takes to succeed in an industry where being pretty just isn’t enough anymore. Terri, welcome to the show.
Terri Morgan [00:02:15]:
Thank you. Wow. After that introduction, I’m honored to be here.
Alysse Bryson [00:02:19]:
Yeah.
Terri Morgan [00:02:19]:
Who was that you were talking about anyway?
Alysse Bryson [00:02:22]:
That’s you, girl. Well, you know, we have done an episode. We work with a gal named Alexander Nyman, and she is a clothing designer in New York. And she started a foundation called the Break Free Foundation. And she actually is the only nonprofit that produces shows in conjunction with New York Fashion Week. And what’s unique about her show is that every all of the designers, everybody that touches the show is in recovery from something. It may be Drugs and alcohol. It may be an eating disorder, it may be another mental health challenge, but everybody involved in the show is in recovery from something.
Alysse Bryson [00:03:01]:
And so we had her on the show, and I was like, we have to have Terry on. We can’t. If we’re going to do fashion, which is definitely an event, let’s be clear. Fashion is definitely an event, then we have to call Terry.
Terri Morgan [00:03:12]:
So I’m so glad you can make it today.
Alysse Bryson [00:03:15]:
Yeah.
Terri Morgan [00:03:15]:
Thank you.
Alysse Bryson [00:03:16]:
So what is new in the fashion event world in a post pandemic world?
Terri Morgan [00:03:22]:
Well, you know, it’s been interesting because a lot, obviously, during the pandemic, live fashion went away. I mean, it just. It evaporated. And as you mentioned earlier, one of my clients is the Bellevue Collection. And we’ve been doing. It’ll be our 20th year doing Bellevue Fashion Week this coming September. And the owner of the Bellevue Collection just said, we’re not going to miss. We’re not or not do it.
Terri Morgan [00:03:47]:
And so we actually filmed both the normal shows that we did. It was really, really fun. So I got to really think outside the box on doing this. We created these really cool spaces. And so we recorded the fashion shows and then we streamed them live with live interview before it, the whole bit. And people bought tickets. And again, it was all for charity. And it was really, really, really fun.
Alysse Bryson [00:04:14]:
But.
Terri Morgan [00:04:15]:
And then the next season, we were still wearing masks, and we ended up. I had the models on the Runway, but I. I mean, part of watching a fashion show is being able to see the model’s face and their expression and their mood and the attitude. It was like putting a mask on, you know, was just not going to cut it. So I found clear.
Alysse Bryson [00:04:35]:
I remember. I remember.
Libby Sundgren [00:04:37]:
I did, too. Elise sent it to me and she.
Terri Morgan [00:04:39]:
Was like, look at.
Libby Sundgren [00:04:40]:
This is such a great idea.
Alysse Bryson [00:04:42]:
I have two clear masks. I’m not getting rid of them. I’m keeping them. I will definitely use them again in the future, hopefully for a Halloween costume and not for real, but. Yes.
Terri Morgan [00:04:51]:
Yeah. Right, right.
Alysse Bryson [00:04:52]:
I thought it was so smart. So smart.
Terri Morgan [00:04:54]:
Well, it kept the energy of the show going, you know, and it was. It was a great way of. Of still being able to do the fashion show and have a live audience and all that. So as far as. But live events are coming back. The major department store, you know, in Seattle is Nordstrom, and they’re doing live events. They’ve been doing some big designer shows for the past few years. I’ve continued to do the Seattle wedding show, Bevy Collection, that sort of thing.
Terri Morgan [00:05:20]:
There’s a lot of other independent shows that are going on. Working with the Fairmont Hotel, which has been a wonderful collaboration. We did a beautiful downtown show for their 100th anniversary last October. And we’re doing a haute tea in, well, a week from Saturday. So bbe, I think this is airing later than that, so it already has happened. But haute tea, which is kind of a high end fashion and it’s around sustainable fashion, so there’s lots going on. It’s, you know, not the big, big, big events that we used to have, but in other markets, they certainly have come back a little bit stronger. I think that what we have is in the northwest with live fashion shows.
Alysse Bryson [00:06:05]:
Well, I’m thrilled to see that they’re back. You know, I love a fashion show. Well, I love a fashion show that’s done right. Let me clarify because when they’re not done right, they’re just, they’re just cringe. Right? They’re just cringe. Yours. Everyone that you’ve ever touched that I have seen has always been, you know, it’s been amazing whether it’s been part of Bellevue, you know, the fall fashion shows, or, you know, you’ve even done the spring pop ups inside of Bellevue collection in the center, kind of like on a Saturday morning. And those were super fun.
Alysse Bryson [00:06:38]:
Super fun. What are you seeing as far as trends for different ages and different body sizes when it comes to the Runway shows?
Terri Morgan [00:06:51]:
The shows themselves are pretty, for the most part, very inclusive as far as the different body types. But I’ll be honest, you know, there’s a lot of pushback because a few years ago there was a lot of, how do I say, inclusivity as far as, you know, using different size models. The. And for me, when it comes to pulling and producing a fashion show, I’m not working with the designer collections. I’m working with off the rack. So I can pull any size I want for the most part. And it’s really easy to do. But for the designers, like at New York Fashion Week or Paris or Milan or London or whatever, they’re working with the collection that the designer has made, which has been, you know, months in advance, and they don’t book the models for the show until days before.
Terri Morgan [00:07:41]:
So it becomes a real problem in trying to create all these different sample sizes when you don’t know who you’re going to get. And so they’ve scaled it back in a sense because it’s just the dollars and cents thing where they can’t really. It’s like, okay, we’re going to get Ashley Graham for the show. They can plan that we’ll build this one look because it’s going to fit Ashley Graham, which is great. But they can’t just make a size 14 and hope that they find the right model, that the right look that’s going to fit that one sample. And it’s expensive. I mean, the whole reason that models need to be a particular size is just fundamentally about money. Because when they make the samples, the less fabric they have to use, the less it costs them to do it.
Terri Morgan [00:08:38]:
And then they’ve got a. A lineup of all the same kind of clothes. So it’s. They’re not making the models to fit the clothes. The models are fitting the clothes. They have to fit the clothes. And that’s so important. When they go on these go sees and these castings, they have to try the clothes on, and then the designers decide if they like the way the clothes look on them, et cetera.
Terri Morgan [00:08:59]:
And it’s just. It’s just less expensive for them to do it that way. It’s not saying that they’re not going to come in other sizes, but it is cost prohibitive, and it’s a ways out that they’ve got a planet not knowing what’s going to happen. So, I mean, I see it happening more in, like I said, the ready to wear world and especially like the kind of things that we do here, because, you know, there’s a designer show coming up that Nordstrom is doing, and they’re shipping in all the samples. Well, the models are being asked to hold the dates, and then they’re doing what is called a fit to confirm. So the day before the show, all the girls that are on hold will go to the store, and they’re going to have to try the clothes on the samples that are being shipped in from New York or wherever. And then the designer himself will be deciding whether they like the way that looks on them. And if they do, then the models confirm the show.
Terri Morgan [00:10:01]:
If they don’t, they’re released.
Libby Sundgren [00:10:02]:
God, that feels like so much pressure for the model to, you know, hold your day. And they might not. They just might not like the way something drapes in a specific way. And then, oh, yeah, you don’t get the job.
Terri Morgan [00:10:14]:
Oh, there’s. There’s so many stories. I mean, models that, you know, went to fitting for Prada, big, big, big show kind of thing, and. And everything was great. And they tell them, you know, at the end of the day, okay, we’ll see you tomorrow. And then, you know, you Wake up in the morning for your call time, and you’ve got a message from your agent saying, oh, they dropp.
Alysse Bryson [00:10:34]:
Yeah. I mean, whatever reason, anything can happen.
Terri Morgan [00:10:37]:
Anything can happen. Yeah. Until you actually have that dress or whatever on and hit the Runway.
Libby Sundgren [00:10:43]:
Right.
Terri Morgan [00:10:43]:
Anything can happen.
Libby Sundgren [00:10:44]:
Don’t know.
Alysse Bryson [00:10:45]:
Because at the end of the day, it is about the clothes. Right. In fact, they want. They want the models to enhance the outfit, but they don’t want them to distract from the outfit. Right. There’s a balance there.
Terri Morgan [00:10:59]:
Yeah. Models are glorified hangers. I mean, it really, truly is. Their job is to wear a garment and try to sell it, and they do a better job than a hanger, obviously. But that is the whole point. I mean, it’s about selling clothes. It’s about getting people excited to go in and go shopping and feel like, oh, my God, I’ve got to have that. I need that.
Alysse Bryson [00:11:22]:
How do you think technology has changed your industry? I mean, when we were going to shows back in 2008, sure, a lot of people had their phones out, but not everybody. Now it’s just like everybody has their phone out, right?
Terri Morgan [00:11:35]:
Yeah.
Alysse Bryson [00:11:36]:
So. And that’s just. That’s just the participant that doesn’t include all the different things, like, behind the scenes, that technology is playing a part. So how is that. I mean, you’ve been in the business for a long time, so how is. How have you seen technology shape the industry and. And shape the events?
Terri Morgan [00:11:53]:
Well, we don’t have a Rolodex anymore, and we. Or the. Or this big book that had everybody’s name in it. You flip through it, or a round table that had clipboards in the middle of it that everybody’ bookings were on. Everybody had a chart. So I always say this to people. Technology’s changed our how we do business, but not what the business itself is so much. You know, what a model does on the Runway varies based on the season and the walk and what the trends are, but the job itself is the same.
Terri Morgan [00:12:26]:
And what she does in front of a camera or for a television commercial, the job itself is the same. What you brought up about the technology, like, everybody’s got a smartphone, you know, at a show, couple of things. So the nice thing about it is, is that you can take a picture, you can refer back to your program if there is one. A lot of times there’s a QR code that you can look it up on whatever the store’s website is or the production. You know, the show itself is on. You can find it with Bellevue Collection. We do a shop the show.
Alysse Bryson [00:13:00]:
So everything I have done, I have shopped many times.
Terri Morgan [00:13:03]:
Yeah, it’s fantastic. I mean, because the nice thing about it is, is that you’re sitting there enjoying the fashion show and then the next day or so you can go online and go, that was the look and that’s where it is.
Alysse Bryson [00:13:16]:
I want those shoes, I want that sweater, I want that coat, I want that dress. Like that is a really cool feature.
Terri Morgan [00:13:23]:
Yeah, it’s really great with ready to wear.
Alysse Bryson [00:13:25]:
Yeah.
Terri Morgan [00:13:26]:
But the, the fact that everybody is posting, it’s on Instagram and you know, that sort of thing, it, we would, when, when social media first came out and we would get like a breakdown for a job and it’d be like, okay, this is for a magazine ad. Oh, and is it okay if we maybe put it on our social media? It’s like, oh, yeah, fine, fine, go ahead. Now. It’s like, oh, okay, that costs this much more. Because so many businesses are doing more social media to promote their companies than they are, sadly in a magazine.
Alysse Bryson [00:13:58]:
Is that, is that factoring into model selection is how many followers someone has in addition to their height and their weight and their shoe size?
Terri Morgan [00:14:07]:
Sometimes, sometimes. We don’t find it a lot in this market, but I did just get this. You’ll find this interesting. We just got a breakdown for, I think it’s the gap and it’s for kids and they only want you to submit children. And I think the ages were like from 6 to 15 or 18 or something like that that had X amount of social media followers. Oh, kids, Kids.
Libby Sundgren [00:14:39]:
Wow.
Terri Morgan [00:14:40]:
Kids.
Alysse Bryson [00:14:40]:
I don’t know about that.
Terri Morgan [00:14:41]:
Kids. I know. Well, there’s a, there’s a special out right now.
Alysse Bryson [00:14:45]:
No, I saw, I haven’t watched it, but I’ve seen the trailer and I’m like, I got to remember that I do want to watch that because it does look like it’s got some behind the scenes interesting fact. And my nephew who is seven, my sister and my brother in law, they made a very conscious decision when he was born. No one is allowed to post his pictures on the Internet because they want him to have choice in that. And my brother in law is in it and he’s got a lot of opinions about facial recognition and all of that. And so they, they’re not saying no forever, but until the, you know, until Bryson is old enough to make his own decisions, they just like nothing. So it’s like I’ll post pictures of his feet or his hands or you know, from the backside, but I’VE never been able to post a picture with him, which is fine. I think my parents actually struggle with it a little bit more than I do because, you know, they want to show how cute he is and he is very cute.
Terri Morgan [00:15:39]:
Yeah. I think, I think there are several parents that have made those kind of decisions for whatever reason and, you know, it’s their decision to make, obviously.
Alysse Bryson [00:15:49]:
Do you work with all ages? Like what’s for. Yeah, Yep.
Terri Morgan [00:15:53]:
Yeah.
Alysse Bryson [00:15:54]:
Yep.
Terri Morgan [00:15:54]:
Yeah.
Alysse Bryson [00:15:54]:
And what is, what is it like working with kids?
Terri Morgan [00:15:57]:
Kids are great. Yeah. It’s the parents.
Alysse Bryson [00:16:00]:
Yeah. That tracks. That makes sense.
Terri Morgan [00:16:03]:
Yeah.
Alysse Bryson [00:16:04]:
Yeah.
Terri Morgan [00:16:04]:
So we really, we really do our best to. Well, like I said, we were talking before we started recording, kids have to be a certain size and they have to be cooperative and parents have to be available to tote them around. I mean, it’s just, that’s just all there is to it. And then understand that, you know, this isn’t a huge market for kids.
Alysse Bryson [00:16:28]:
No.
Terri Morgan [00:16:28]:
You know, so it’s like, you know, they’ll get a job here and there and they’re going to have fun and all that. But the parents need to. I don’t think it’s not as bad with children sometimes because the parents do need to be there. But the whole mominger thing can be a little bit much. I mean, and it’s obviously too important that the kids themselves want to model. It’s not a parent that wants the kid to model because that’s just. That’s a nightmare.
Alysse Bryson [00:16:56]:
That’s not going to work.
Terri Morgan [00:16:57]:
That’s a nightmare.
Alysse Bryson [00:16:57]:
Yeah, that’s not going to work.
Terri Morgan [00:16:59]:
Yeah. And then it’s like, you know, a mom that brings in a, you know, a 13 year old girl that wants her to model and you see the girl like, huh, you know, and she.
Alysse Bryson [00:17:08]:
Doesn’T want to be there. Yeah, I want to be there.
Terri Morgan [00:17:10]:
And the mom’s doing all the talking and I’m like, isn’t going to work. Come back when she’s 15 and we’ll, we’ll look at her then because she’s the one that’s gonna have to do the job. She has to do the job, not the mom.
Alysse Bryson [00:17:22]:
And you also have models that I know because I’ve been to. I don’t know that I’ve been to every single year of Bellevue, Bellevue Fashion Week, but I’ve been to more than I haven’t, to be clear. And like, you have a lot of models that have been with you for a long time.
Libby Sundgren [00:17:35]:
Oh my gosh.
Terri Morgan [00:17:37]:
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Alysse Bryson [00:17:38]:
That’s really fun. Because you’ve probably seen them go from, you know, being very young to getting married to even maybe having kids, like.
Terri Morgan [00:17:47]:
Oh, yeah.
Alysse Bryson [00:17:47]:
I mean, you’ve been through a lot with. With them.
Terri Morgan [00:17:50]:
Yeah, I have, actually. Representing their daughters or sons now.
Alysse Bryson [00:17:56]:
Oh, wow.
Libby Sundgren [00:17:57]:
That is wild.
Terri Morgan [00:17:58]:
Yeah. Yeah, it’s really fun. It’s really fun. And I think last year, so one of my models that had started with me, this is in the early 90s, this founder at Bellevue Square. Her daughter is one of our top girls now, and they were both in the fashion show together.
Libby Sundgren [00:18:15]:
Oh, that’s a cool. That’s cool experience.
Terri Morgan [00:18:18]:
Yeah, it’s really cool. It’s really cool. Both absolutely gorgeous still and. Yeah, no, it’s great. It’s great. We are a bit of a family, you know, I mean, this industry is really, really hard on. On girls and boys. It’s because you feel like you’re just being judged all the time, and kind of sort of.
Terri Morgan [00:18:36]:
You are.
Alysse Bryson [00:18:37]:
Yeah.
Terri Morgan [00:18:37]:
But your agency should be your safe place. And, you know, sometimes we have to say things that are a little harder than we want to. But it’s also, you know, back in the day when I was modeling and I didn’t get a job, I want to know that it was because they wanted somebody with brown eyes, not blue, or that they, you know, that I didn’t fit the clothing or I did. There’s something I could fix. I would want to know that if it’s something that I can’t fix. Okay. So sometimes we have to share hard things and let them know that you’re valiant. They didn’t.
Terri Morgan [00:19:14]:
They didn’t like your attitude, or you were too chatty during the fitting, or you didn’t move well in front of the camera. But it’s all part of what your job is, and you have to understand what that is. It’s not somebody just being mean. It’s like a model’s job. I always tell them, like with doing a photo shoot, for instance, you know, there’s an art director, there’s a creative director, there’s a photographer, there’s a makeup artist, there’s a stylist, there’s a hair person, there’s the assistants, there’s the lighting people, there’s. And the designer, and it all gets put together and everything’s made, and then the model gets made up, and they’re put on set, and everybody else’s job is done, and now it’s their turn, and you have to perform. And nine times out of 10, if something doesn’t go right, they’re going to blame the model.
Alysse Bryson [00:20:05]:
Yeah.
Terri Morgan [00:20:07]:
It’s not going to be that the art director had a bad idea. You know, it’s going to be, well, that model didn’t come across well, so they’re really put on the pressure to have to perform. So as you said in the beginning, it’s not enough to just be pretty. You got to know something, and you have to be able to perform.
Alysse Bryson [00:20:26]:
That’s a really unique skill set. I’m curious how you took that skill set from professional and applied it in your personal life with your own kids and friends and family. That kind of radical candor, basically.
Terri Morgan [00:20:41]:
Well, okay. So I always told my kids that they were guilty until proven innocent.
Libby Sundgren [00:20:50]:
Mm. Yes. I like your style.
Terri Morgan [00:20:54]:
Yeah.
Alysse Bryson [00:20:54]:
Libby all of a sudden is leaning in.
Libby Sundgren [00:20:56]:
She’s like, tell me I’m going to use this.
Terri Morgan [00:20:59]:
Yes, I did that. And they would both tell you that. And their friends as well. They just, you know. You know, as a parent, you have instincts.
Alysse Bryson [00:21:10]:
Yeah.
Terri Morgan [00:21:10]:
And it was like, no, I wasn’t there. My daughter swore that I had, like, eyes all around her at all times. And all it was was just, you know, staying in touch with teachers and getting to know the principals and that sort of thing. And other parents, you know, not just being absent. You’ve got to know who your kids are hanging out with. And the parents that probably aren’t ever home and are promiscuous in the sense of, okay, well, they’re underage because I’d rather have them drinking here than out someplace else. I’m like, oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Libby Sundgren [00:21:46]:
Not on my watch, people.
Terri Morgan [00:21:48]:
No, that doesn’t happen. So I would. I’d show up, or I’d call her at the last minute, go, you. It’s cool. Yeah. This is one time she was getting in. She was going to go get in the car and go off campus for lunch. That was all.
Terri Morgan [00:22:02]:
But she wasn’t supposed to. And the minute I called, she was like, yeah, yeah, I’m here. And so then after school, it was like, okay, what was going on? She goes, how did you know? And I go, oh, I can’t tell you that.
Alysse Bryson [00:22:13]:
A mother just knows.
Terri Morgan [00:22:15]:
Just now. Just knew now. Just now.
Alysse Bryson [00:22:18]:
Did. Did both of your kids model? Because I’m pretty sure I’ve seen your son model. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Terri Morgan [00:22:24]:
And my daughter did. When she. She did till she was about 16, 17. She was one of my most difficult models because everything. She always wanted to be in the shows because we were always there as a family. We were always there Producing shows and my kids and then, you know, their babysitters were models and all of that sort of thing. And she always wanted to be in the shows, but things bugged her. Like, if an outfit that I had pulled, she didn’t like the way it felt on her or it was.
Terri Morgan [00:22:56]:
It wasn’t the color that she liked. It was like. It bugs me. She wouldn’t. She wouldn’t wear it. Well, the clothes had to go out on the Runway. So fortunately, my sister and one of my best friends had daughters the same age. So I would always book two of them, Blair and one of the backup girls, as a backup.
Terri Morgan [00:23:18]:
So if Blair wouldn’t wear it, then Tess or Logan would, and then Blair would get to wear the other. And then when she liked what she wore, she was fantastic. She was terrible. It stitches me. I’m like, oh, God. Okay, whatever.
Alysse Bryson [00:23:34]:
What you must. I mean, I have only been backstage of a fashion show a handful of times, so not. Not very many. I could probably count them all on one hand. And they were chaotic.
Terri Morgan [00:23:47]:
No, it’s organized chaos.
Alysse Bryson [00:23:49]:
Yeah, they. But they were like, woof. I mean, there. There’s a lot going on, and you may or may not even have very much space.
Terri Morgan [00:23:56]:
Oh, no. Oh, no, no.
Alysse Bryson [00:23:58]:
And you just have to not care about changing and doing, like. Oh, yeah, yeah.
Terri Morgan [00:24:04]:
No. Nobody’s having a cup of tea between changes. No. Yeah. The back backstage at a fashion show is crazy and hectic and fun and exhilarating, and everything is moving fast. I mean, they’re changing clothes from head to toe and getting ready and lined up and then, you know, remembering some kind of crazy choreography I gave them. So when they.
Libby Sundgren [00:24:28]:
It’s when they hit the Runway. What. You know, as a consumer, we just get to see this beautifully executed design show. Just graceful walking, beautiful clothes. But what are you looking for backstage that we would never see? Like, would. We’re just looking to see some, like, a beautiful show. But what are you looking for when you watch models walk out during a show?
Terri Morgan [00:24:56]:
Well, so the whole thing for me with a fashion show, it’s like a symphony. Everything is kind of comes together to make the whole show. So obviously, the clothing is the most important part. So the planning for the fashion show starts with what I predict as the trends for the season or depending on what the. What it is, if we’re doing different stores or designers or whatever, you know, planning that part of it out. So it starts with the clothing and how that’s going to look. And then with, like, Bellevue Collection, we do trend show, which Is all different kinds of stores that have that kind of trend going. And then we have another show that’s a collective show and it’s curated by store.
Terri Morgan [00:25:45]:
So say 10 looks. It’s all from that same store. Try to feel that the. The clothing needs to relate within that scene. And then coming up with the music and the media, the background, which I.
Alysse Bryson [00:25:59]:
Love, inspires part of my favorite part. I love that part.
Terri Morgan [00:26:02]:
I tell somebody that it is like going to a rock concert. It’s not like, so totally, yes. So fun. So the clothing. So, like, for instance, I’ll just say we’ve got a menswear scene. Okay. That means, you know, women’s menswear, oversized menswear scene. Okay.
Terri Morgan [00:26:17]:
What does that say? In my head, it says maybe city. You know, maybe a city kind of a feel. And case, they’ve got a city feel. And so then the beat for the music has got to feel a little more industrial, a little bit heavier. It’s not going to be light and floaty. It’s not going to be like a garden floral kind of a scene. It’s going to have a. A hard beat to it.
Terri Morgan [00:26:37]:
It’s going to have a real strong dynamic and feel manish in that way. And so we figure that all out and then coming up with some choreography that then makes sense. So it’s like if you’ve got two models that are shoulder to shoulder and they’ve got this real strong walk as they come down the Runway. What I’m trying to say to you is, this is menswear. This is how menswear feels. This is what it needs to look like. And then the next scene, when you see the floral dress, dresses, and the garden thing in the background, and we’ve got kind of music going, you’re going to feel that as that goes on. So all of that comes together.
Terri Morgan [00:27:19]:
Oh, I start. I started doing music and media about three weeks prior to the show. And then we pull this clothing the week of the show because it’s all stuff that’s in store. And then we do a fitting, and then we do a tech rehearsal where I go in, and with the team at the board, we refine everything that you look on stage. And then we do a Runway rehearsal the day of the show. So if the show’s an 8 o’clock show, the models generally show up at 2. We rehearse for three hours with the music and the media. I come up with the choreography, the scenes, how it all flows, and then they go back to hair and makeup.
Terri Morgan [00:28:01]:
We’ve got the dressing room all set up, the dressroom and ready for the models when they’re done with hair and makeup. We’ve got professional dressers. And then they get into their first looks. I’m out front. I’ve got people in headsets. I’ve got a stylist that’s making sure that everything looks the way that we wanted it to as it hits the Runway, and then we do the show. So what I look for backstage is, honestly, as crate. As chaotic as it maybe looks.
Terri Morgan [00:28:28]:
The calmer everybody is back there, the faster it goes for them. A model that’s throwing clothes and not, you know, concentrating is taking up way more time than if they just simply take their jacket off and put on another one and zip up the sweater and goes out the door and slips on their shoes.
Libby Sundgren [00:28:48]:
That’s amazing. You do the choreography just a few hours before the show.
Terri Morgan [00:28:54]:
Well, I figure I have an idea in my head as to what I want it to do.
Libby Sundgren [00:28:59]:
Yeah.
Terri Morgan [00:28:59]:
And then. And how. How I. How I picture the models coming out with the media and the music and everything, and then getting the clothing and seeing, okay, what’s going to look good? Who’s going to look good out on the Runway together. I line up the clothes and then fit the models. And so then I can think, okay, well, this is a nice threesome. You know, we did. Was it last fall.
Terri Morgan [00:29:26]:
There was. It’s always fun, like with. Especially with the Bellevue collection, because we’ve got such. I mean, it’s a beautiful production. Just overall, it’s insane. I don’t think there’s another mall that does anything even close.
Alysse Bryson [00:29:41]:
Not even close. Not a bad.
Terri Morgan [00:29:46]:
I don’t even think in the States I’ve looked. No, I haven’t seen anything. So it’s pretty spectacular. Anyway, it’s like that. That moment last year, there were three girls in this. It was kind of a French interior kind of a scene. And the clothing in the scene was all vintage wallpaper, prints, and that sort of thing in kind of a boho. And I had three girls come down the Runway together.
Terri Morgan [00:30:12]:
That picture was like every. Everybody posted that. Everybody.
Alysse Bryson [00:30:16]:
That was the shot.
Terri Morgan [00:30:17]:
So those. Yeah, those are the moments.
Alysse Bryson [00:30:19]:
So, Terry, we’re doing all of this is. It’s tapping into a huge part of your creative side, which gets me very excited. And I would love to know, where do you go for inspiration and to watch trends and know what’s coming? But you also do an amazing job at keeping it connected to the Pacific Northwest.
Terri Morgan [00:30:40]:
Oh, thank you. Thank you. Well, I have in the past, traveled to fashion weeks and seen shows I spent a lot of time watching. You know, we’re so lucky now that everything is on online. So I spend a lot of time watching fashion shows and seeing, you know, what’s being done and that sort of thing. I think there’s little animals in my head that are going around crazy. But I see. It’s like when I, like I was saying that about the.
Terri Morgan [00:31:12]:
The suiting in my head, I just. I’m just picturing that’s like where that would be. And then I see maybe like a subway going by or if it’s like a few years ago, we had like a British inspired thing, and we came up with this fun idea of doing like a old school black and white little video. And I’ve got a 68 MGB GT, which is a old British car. And so we did a fun thing with the models, you know, driving in the car and had opened the scene and then they came out onto the Runway. I honestly.
Alysse Bryson [00:31:52]:
It’s just in you. It’s just in you.
Terri Morgan [00:31:54]:
I like who you watch. I like to watch musicals. I like to see things that, you know, big production type things, and then you pick a little bit of that out. And like, with bridal shows, kind of like, I’ve done things with. We did an old. An old historic mansion type thing and kind of felt like Camelot, so, you know, had a. Had somebody sing and I don’t know, I just.
Alysse Bryson [00:32:22]:
You’re a visual storyteller. Like, you. You just are. Like, I’ve been to so many shows that you’ve been connected to, and like, that’s. That’s what I’m there for. Yes, I’m there for the clothes. Of course I’m there for the clothes, but I’m there for the story. I’m there to be entertained and get wrapped up and try to picture myself in any of the looks.
Alysse Bryson [00:32:42]:
Right?
Terri Morgan [00:32:42]:
Yeah. Yeah.
Alysse Bryson [00:32:43]:
One of the favorite shows we worked on with you for many years, this is back in the day was the. The independent designer Runway show that was. Which was like the first show that would kick off Bellevue Fashion Week. It happened for many years. Laura Cassidy would help work with local designers. I loved that show. I loved that show because it was just a little different than the other show and it. And you know, that was very early on in the Project Runway days when that was, you know, I mean, I know that a version of that show is still around, but very early on.
Alysse Bryson [00:33:18]:
And so that was so fun. That was always one of my favorites to work On.
Terri Morgan [00:33:21]:
Yeah, I love that show. We all love that show. But what happened is there were not the big designer schools that were, you know, the Art Institute closed down and there was somebody else. But we are bringing back. We are doing a mentoring program with four different universities. WSU Central, I think Seattle Central, and spu. And we have two designers from each of those schools that are going to be producing two looks that we will have in Bellevue Collection in the Collective shop in September.
Alysse Bryson [00:34:01]:
Oh, that’s cool. That’s fantastic.
Terri Morgan [00:34:03]:
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It’s fun. We met with them. They’re darling. They’ve got some fun ideas. And, yeah, they really. The whole idea around the independent designer show that Bellevue Collection came up with was helping to mentor these designers in the hopes that one day, you know, they can come back and they’ll have a shop at Bellevue Square. And, you know, some of them have gone on to do.
Terri Morgan [00:34:23]:
Do well, and it’s been really fun to, you know, watch them grow. But without the. The, you know, the big art presence or the Art Institute presence in the market, it became a little bit more difficult.
Alysse Bryson [00:34:36]:
Yeah, that totally makes sense.
Terri Morgan [00:34:38]:
Yeah.
Alysse Bryson [00:34:39]:
So you’ve clocked a lot of miles at Bellevue Collection, like, on your feet. A lot of miles. I have to know. And don’t say where it is. I mean, you could tell me later offline, but I know that I have a favorite place to park there that I think is, like, I’m pretty much, like, always know I’m going to get a spot. Like, I feel pretty confident about it. Do you? So I have a pattern. Like, when I go to Bellevue Collection, I have a routine, and I’m just curious.
Alysse Bryson [00:35:04]:
Curious. I’m assuming you have one, because you have to go to all the different shops and pull looks and all of that. Do you have a secret parking spot?
Terri Morgan [00:35:11]:
Well, I’ll be honest with you. I don’t have just one.
Alysse Bryson [00:35:15]:
Aha.
Terri Morgan [00:35:16]:
Because every. So if I’m going for a meeting in the management office, I have a spot.
Alysse Bryson [00:35:22]:
Yep. Yep.
Terri Morgan [00:35:23]:
And. But if I’m so every. This. Oh, you’ll love this. So every season that we do Bellevue Fashion Week, they have to find a place for me to work.
Alysse Bryson [00:35:37]:
Oh, sure.
Terri Morgan [00:35:38]:
Because I’m pulling.
Alysse Bryson [00:35:39]:
You’re there. You’re there.
Terri Morgan [00:35:40]:
- 30 racks of clothing.
Alysse Bryson [00:35:42]:
Yeah, you’re there.
Terri Morgan [00:35:44]:
And I have 30 racks of clothing. 20 to 30 racks, depending. Okay. And so I need a space to work, you guys. I. I can’t even begin to tell you all the different spaces I’ve had to work out of. So when I Park. It generally has to be like, okay, the closest to where I’m going because I’m toting and hauling stuff out of my car and all of our accessory things that we bring along and shoes and such.
Terri Morgan [00:36:07]:
So I kind of move around in the mall. But one year the mall was completely full. Well, there were several years it was completely full. 1. I don’t know if you even know this. There’s a basement at Bellevue Square.
Libby Sundgren [00:36:20]:
Oh, no.
Alysse Bryson [00:36:21]:
Yeah, well, there has to be because. Because there’s the. The Macy’s has that downstairs. Yeah, there has to be. Yeah, yeah, there has to be.
Terri Morgan [00:36:30]:
Yeah. So there’s a basement, and I was working out of one of the. It’s a. They’re chicken wire. Huh?
Libby Sundgren [00:36:39]:
It’s very glamorous is what you’re saying.
Alysse Bryson [00:36:42]:
Yeah, it’s a very glamorous lifestyle. Yes.
Terri Morgan [00:36:45]:
Oh, no. But. But it got. It. It got even worse than that. Another year there. We didn’t even have a space in the basement to work in. So they rented a construction trailer.
Alysse Bryson [00:36:58]:
Oh, wow.
Terri Morgan [00:37:02]:
Yeah. And we called it the model home. That’s construction trailer. And that must have been crammed with.
Libby Sundgren [00:37:11]:
That many racks of clothing. How’d you even get in that thing?
Terri Morgan [00:37:15]:
Well, okay, so what they ended up doing, they had to build a wooden ramp because they just have ladders. And we had to roll racks in.
Alysse Bryson [00:37:23]:
Yeah.
Terri Morgan [00:37:24]:
And then we had to do all the fittings inside this. So we had climate controlled.
Alysse Bryson [00:37:32]:
Did it have air?
Terri Morgan [00:37:33]:
Yeah.
Alysse Bryson [00:37:34]:
Okay. Okay.
Terri Morgan [00:37:34]:
Yeah, it did. It did. And what. We found a spot. So when we had. We actually had to have models in it to do fittings. We found a spot in a back hallway that we got draped off so that we could roll the racks out and put them in there. But then every night, we couldn’t leave it there.
Terri Morgan [00:37:57]:
Every night we had to roll all the racks back into the trailer before we could leave.
Alysse Bryson [00:38:04]:
There is nothing glamorous about events. No, no. Okay, now I have to know. I have so many questions. This is like. We’ll probably have to have you back because I just have way too many questions, but do you have like a preferred type of rack or a preferred brand of rack?
Terri Morgan [00:38:20]:
Oh, I like those sales. The salesman racks. The little metal salesman racks that just fold down in toten hall.
Alysse Bryson [00:38:27]:
Okay.
Terri Morgan [00:38:28]:
Yeah.
Libby Sundgren [00:38:28]:
All right.
Terri Morgan [00:38:29]:
Yeah.
Alysse Bryson [00:38:29]:
I have a few racks myself, being. Being a curator, but so I’m always just on the hunt to, you know, for new tricks when it comes to storage.
Terri Morgan [00:38:39]:
Well, they’re really heavy duty.
Alysse Bryson [00:38:42]:
Yeah, you need a heavy duty. Because clothes, depending on what you’re I mean coats, it can be heavy and you don’t want them. You don’t want stuff to drape and get. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Terri Morgan [00:38:50]:
They can’t be flimsy. We’ve broken a few racks on our day.
Libby Sundgren [00:38:54]:
Elise, where’s your, where’s your parking spot?
Alysse Bryson [00:38:57]:
Where do you park when you go? I don’t like. We have too many listeners, Libby. I can’t, I can’t be leaking that information out. But I will tell you offline when this is something we always ask people because we love to know, like what people? What’s in your bag? What’s in your fanny pack? You know, do you use a clipboard? Those kinds of things. So when you’re on event day and it’s the day of you’re gonna, it’s gonna be a long day. Like what do you do to prepare? What do you have with you for you? And what do you do the day after all the events are over for yourself? There’s a two part question.
Terri Morgan [00:39:31]:
Okay, well, I’m terrible about planning for me. I’m terrible, Terry. Yeah, I know. I plan like if it’s for, if it’s show day. I always really plan my outfit. Okay. And so I’ve got that. I’d bring that usually have to have my, my daughter and my bestie Debbie.
Terri Morgan [00:39:49]:
That always works with me. They always have to, they end up making me eat and drink and that sort of thing because I am just.
Alysse Bryson [00:39:56]:
Go, go, go, go.
Terri Morgan [00:39:57]:
My son calls me a camel. I’m getting, I get in show mode and I’m just going constantly. I always have to have a couple of pens and everything. So I. And my yellow legal pad.
Alysse Bryson [00:40:12]:
Oh, taking it old school.
Terri Morgan [00:40:15]:
Oh yeah, 100%.
Alysse Bryson [00:40:16]:
You may not have a Rolodex anymore, but you still have your legal pad.
Terri Morgan [00:40:20]:
Legal pad. I’ve been writing show lineups for the models. So I write up something that has like they’re the scene, the model’s names and then you know what they’re doing and that sort of thing. And you’re going to make copies of it for all of them. They’ve all got paper copies so they can write on it. And their copies are all white, but mine’s yellow. So I always know. And by the time a show’s over with, they actually look like tissue paper that I tell them so much and it’s like barely anything there.
Terri Morgan [00:40:53]:
But yeah, that’s, that’s my go to the day after the shows is spent all day putting things back to the stores. And honestly, I mean I love the productions, and, I mean, it’s the best. I can’t wait for this year. But I. That sense of accomplishment, when you’ve got 30 racks full of clothing, shoes, and accessories from every single store in the mall and you get it all back to them in perfect condition, not missing an item and they can put it right back out on the rack to sell is so good.
Alysse Bryson [00:41:34]:
You have a system then. There’s no way you can pull that all off without a system.
Terri Morgan [00:41:39]:
Yeah, we got a system. Yeah, we got a system.
Alysse Bryson [00:41:42]:
Yeah. Yeah. Fascinating. Fascinating.
Terri Morgan [00:41:45]:
That’s my fun.
Libby Sundgren [00:41:46]:
I bet that feels so good, though. You deliver your last rack, and you’re like, I’m out of my chicken wire office. Now I can just like. I mean, there’s obviously. There are obviously gonna be other things you still have to do to wrap up a show and all the things that go with it and the paperwork and, you know, billing and all of those very exciting things. But that physical component being done with that must feel really good.
Terri Morgan [00:42:10]:
Yeah, it is. It’s really great. I’ve got a great team that helps me do it all, and we’re just. It’s just like clockwork. And sometimes we’ll go and get a pedicure, you know, drink a glass of champagne and have a pedicure.
Alysse Bryson [00:42:24]:
Is there a standout show in your history of shows that you’re like? This was the iconic one. Do you have any standouts? I know they’re all good, so it’s okay if you don’t.
Terri Morgan [00:42:35]:
I have so many that I love for all different kind of reasons. Before we had all the LED screens and all that, it was one of the first Fashion Week shows that we did. I don’t know if you remember, Elise, when we were across the street and it had the lower level, and sometimes we had a band that played, and then you went upstairs and all that, and we did this scene with a scrim, and the song was Fashionista. Everybody, line up, line up. The show’s about to start. It was RuPaul, and I had this idea about, you know, the. The thought of people. Do you remember seeing Isaac Mizrahi unzipped?
Alysse Bryson [00:43:19]:
Yes. Yes.
Terri Morgan [00:43:20]:
Okay, so you remember how you could see the models behind the scrim getting ready for the show? Okay. So we didn’t have the models dressing backstage, but I had one of the models, a man come out with headphones on, like he was, you know, cueing the show, and he’s lip syncing to. Everybody, line up, line up. The show’s about to start. And then a model came out and a stylist came out, and they’re all behind this scrim with the light on them. And they’re starting to, you know, just adjusting. And we get like, it’s kind of that behind the scenes kind of look and then that it goes to black. And then the lights just went crazy.
Terri Morgan [00:43:58]:
And the coolest thing was before the models even came out on the Runway, the audience applaud.
Alysse Bryson [00:44:05]:
That’s cool. That’s really.
Terri Morgan [00:44:06]:
That was cool. It was like, oh, oh. And somebody had given me some pushback on doing that. I was like, I showed you. Yeah. That was neat. Before we even got a model on the Runway, they were applauding. So it’s that kind of like, wow, this is cool.
Alysse Bryson [00:44:23]:
I have two. Besides the independent designer Runway show, which will always be be standouts for me, I have two very strong references of Bellevue Fashion Week. One, I believe it was the 10 year anniversary, I think. And they what? They used a local artist from Mercer Island. Her name is Blair. Her married name last now, now is Williams, but I think her maiden name was Brittenstein. Or I’m butchering it. Yeah, Brittenstein.
Terri Morgan [00:44:52]:
Something like that.
Alysse Bryson [00:44:53]:
Yeah, something like that. And she did these really cool fashion illustrations. And she’s now gone on. She lives in new. She’s done it for all kinds of amazing designers. And I have purchased multiple pieces of artwork from her because I fell in love with her at that show. And she was there because they were doing like, they had little postcards and the swag bags and she did all the artwork that year and I was completely obsessed with her. And Nina Feldman went to high school with her.
Alysse Bryson [00:45:20]:
Libby.
Terri Morgan [00:45:21]:
Uh huh.
Libby Sundgren [00:45:22]:
And I remember because we had so much of it around your office and you still have it in your house.
Alysse Bryson [00:45:27]:
I have many of her pieces, so that was one. I also still have. I think I still have the swag bag from that year as well. Maybe. I definitely have several swag bags over the years. Not all of them, but several. And then my second core memory is it’s very. It’s very embarrassing.
Alysse Bryson [00:45:44]:
I don’t even know if you. You may know this story, Terri, you may not. It was very embarrassing. I want to say it was 2017 or 2018. It was one of those two years. And there was the step and repeat photo booth experience. You somewhere between the entrance at the Hyatt, you know, somewhere in there somewhere. And this particular year you had to step up on this riser and there were like backlights and they had like a three dimensional background.
Libby Sundgren [00:46:14]:
2015 or 16, maybe even.
Alysse Bryson [00:46:17]:
Might have been 16. Might have been six. It might have been 16 before I had a baby. Yeah, yeah, it might have been 16. You’re right. It was probably 16. It was multi dimensional. There were beads, there were up lights, there was all kinds of things.
Alysse Bryson [00:46:29]:
And we were. The show was over. I was like, we’re leaving the show. I was very eager to get across the street to Joey’s for food. I was very hungry. I was hangry even. And I was with a group of gals. And there, you know, there’s always that one girl that just can’t get enough photo ops.
Alysse Bryson [00:46:45]:
Just can’t get enough photo ops. And like, you know, after working at the magazine for so many years and doing so many photo booths and stuff, like, I don’t. I don’t need it anymore, right? I don’t need it anymore. But I’m also like, I don’t want to be the Debbie Downer of the group. And so anyway, there were five of us and the photographer that was working, it had worked for us, the magazine, many, many, many times. So I knew him very well. He knew I was particular. I have a particular side that I like to capture.
Alysse Bryson [00:47:12]:
And there were five of us and we were squeezing onto this platform that was not for five people, to be clear. I was in the center and he was trying to get the best shot and kept telling me to turn. And I was getting. I’m hangry, right? And so I was like, do you, Pavel, do you just want me to just like spin around? And as I went to jokingly spin, I was wearing platforms. My foot went back off the platform, but it went down into one of the up lights, which was hot, right? It was hot. And so my knee jerk reaction was to grab the wall that was behind us, but it wasn’t a real wall, it was a fake wall. It was a styrofoam wall. And I fell backwards through it like the Incredible Hulk.
Alysse Bryson [00:47:58]:
And it was right as the show was over. So everybody is leaving and walking by. And so now here’s what I say. Girl code. This is where my girls did rally. They. They swarmed me to be like, we got a man down, right? And so they swarmed me and. And so then it gets worse.
Alysse Bryson [00:48:14]:
It actually gets worse. So Pavel comes to help and to help me get up. And somehow in the commotion of them covering us and him coming up to help me, my hair gets stuck in the zipper of his pants. No, it’s just getting worse and worse and worse. And I’m just like, And I’m just. And he’s like. And somebody’s like, does anyone have scissors? Does anyone have scissors? And I’m like, just rip it. Just rip it out.
Libby Sundgren [00:48:41]:
You know, just like rip the hair off my head.
Terri Morgan [00:48:43]:
Get me out of here.
Libby Sundgren [00:48:45]:
Get me to Joey.
Alysse Bryson [00:48:46]:
And then. And then so I get up, we brush off. There are definitely people looking. I am like 18 shades of purple. And then Pavel, God bless him, he’s like, I think I can still get the shot if you guys want to try again. And I’m just like, I’m out. Like I’m out.
Terri Morgan [00:49:03]:
So make it work. Oh my God. That is hilarious. Well, now I know why we don’t have platforms.
Alysse Bryson [00:49:09]:
Yep. I am definitely the reason because you’re the reason. Krista. Deft. Krista definitely knew that that happened.
Terri Morgan [00:49:15]:
Oh God, I can’t. Oh, I can’t wait to tell Krista than this.
Alysse Bryson [00:49:18]:
Yes, yes. That is definitely probably the reason why you guys no longer have platforms.
Terri Morgan [00:49:23]:
Oh no. Oh, that’s hair. That’s hilarious. That’s hilarious.
Alysse Bryson [00:49:28]:
Yeah, I. I have a dear friend that’s like Elise, you know your life could be a sitcom. And I’m like, you’re not wrong. Yeah, not wrong.
Terri Morgan [00:49:37]:
I. How did you. I’ll be. Never mind. We’ll have to talk off camera where it’s how you got your hair caught in a zipper.
Alysse Bryson [00:49:44]:
I don’t even, like, I don’t even know how that happened. Like that is like. It was so embarrassing. And thank goodness. Actually thank goodness I knew him. If it had been a stranger, I feel like that would have been worse. But this is a guy I had worked with for years, so.
Terri Morgan [00:49:57]:
Yeah.
Alysse Bryson [00:49:58]:
And I didn’t. I. Nobody got hurt other than the backdrop, right? I wasn’t hurt. Like nothing, you know, nothing got broken. I mean other than the backdrop. But so, so embarrassing.
Libby Sundgren [00:50:09]:
Memory. What a memory highlights your highlight reel.
Alysse Bryson [00:50:13]:
So events are glamorous. They are glamorous. Except when they’re not.
Terri Morgan [00:50:19]:
Right? Right.
Alysse Bryson [00:50:20]:
Well, Libby, do you have any final questions for Terry today before we.
Terri Morgan [00:50:24]:
I don’t.
Alysse Bryson [00:50:25]:
I feel like we could ask you.
Libby Sundgren [00:50:26]:
We could have a part two and a three and a four because I know you have so many good stories that we would love.
Terri Morgan [00:50:33]:
I’m here. Okay. Now it’s. It’s been a really. I never intend. I. I wanted to be a fashion designer. I made all my own clothes when I was growing up and wanted to get into fashion design.
Terri Morgan [00:50:46]:
And then being tall and thin and flat chested, somebody said you should be a model. And I’m like Okay, so tried that. And then obviously, just, it’s morphed into all of this. And the creative, the, you know, the fun part about having the agency and working with new models and actors is, you know, one side of things that’s so special and so fun. And to get to show my creative side with fashion show production has been just a gift. I mean, at one time, I produced almost 70 shows a year here.
Libby Sundgren [00:51:18]:
Well, and that’s wild.
Alysse Bryson [00:51:20]:
You are an iconic businesswoman. You’re not just creative, you’re not just stylish, you’re not just tall. Right. You run a very classy, very professional business. And, like, I’ve never heard a negative word spoken about you ever. You know, you just, you’re top notch to work with. Like, I knew if you were involved, it was going to be a top notch event. Like, I was like, I’m in.
Alysse Bryson [00:51:45]:
If Terry’s in, I’m definitely in.
Terri Morgan [00:51:47]:
Oh, thank you, Elise. That means a lot. That means a lot.
Alysse Bryson [00:51:50]:
Yeah.
Libby Sundgren [00:51:50]:
Yeah. You definitely have a legacy, Terri. So thank you so much.
Alysse Bryson [00:51:53]:
Thank you for coming.
Terri Morgan [00:51:54]:
Oh, my pleasure. Today is my 46th anniversary of owning this business. Thank you. Thank you.
Alysse Bryson [00:52:03]:
Is this the first podcast you’ve ever been on?
Terri Morgan [00:52:07]:
No, I’ve done a couple others.
Alysse Bryson [00:52:08]:
You’ve done a couple. All right, so we didn’t. We didn’t copy podcast Cherry, but we did get you on your anniversary.
Terri Morgan [00:52:13]:
This has been really fun.
Libby Sundgren [00:52:14]:
This is the most fun one you’ve been on. Yes. So, Terri, before Elise wraps us up, how can our listeners find you? How can they find out what you’re up to and maybe learn a little bit more about your wonderful biz?
Terri Morgan [00:52:27]:
Oh, thank you. So our website is tcm models.com and same with Instagram, tcmmodels.com and my personal is terry610t e r r i610.
Libby Sundgren [00:52:40]:
All right, I’m going to friend you right now. I’m going to follow you.
Alysse Bryson [00:52:43]:
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