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Leif Elias, co-owner of Orchid Lane, Ann Arbor, MI

Leif Elias

Merging fair trade and fashion

by Courtney Conover

posted 11/12/2009

“Mom is the creative one,” says Leif Elias. “I’m more business minded.” Elias, twenty-nine, and her mother Nancy Elias, fifty-seven, are co-owners of Orchid Lane, the clothing and jewelry business that Nancy launched when Leif was in kindergarten.

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