The Yardbird owner and co-founder of female-focused platform Missbish gives her tips for women in business
Generation T lister Lindsay Jang is best known as the innovative restaurateur behind award-winning establishments Yardbird, Ronin and Sunday’s Grocery.
As well as opening a second branch of yakitori hotspot Yardbird this month, Jang is focusing her “kick ass, work hard” mentality on Missbish, announcing the platform’s first private-label apparel collection.
“Missbish is an online editorial platform that’s focused on strong female-driven content,” says Jang of the company she founded with friends Gillian Wong and fellow Generation T lister Nicole Fung, of That Food Cray. “Our ambition is to give the audience we’ve built over the last few years the clothes and lifestyle goods that we don’t think are in the market yet.”
“We wanted to bridge the gap from function to fashion,” says Jang of the minimalist, all-black line of athleisure. “Because if you’re going out for drinks or if you’re going to the office, you can’t look like you just ran a marathon.”
Given the platform’s focus on female empowerment, we asked Jang for her tips on how to be a successful female entrepreneur. For Jang, the gender divide isn’t so important: “I’ve never felt disadvantaged being female; I’ve actually always thought it was an advantage,” she says. Accordingly, most of her advice is in fact applicable to both genders—with one crucial difference.