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Celebrating Gratitude: Your Support Makes Us Stronger

Celebrating Gratitude: Your Support Makes Us Stronger

13 days ago
In this video, Allison thanks you all for your unwavering support throughout the years.
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Your Permission Slip to Self Appreciation

Your Permission Slip to Self Appreciation

In this video Allison shares how important it is to give yourself permission to stand firm in yo...
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Aging With Grace, Raising With Love

Aging With Grace, Raising With Love

So many of you reached out after I shared my last blog “As we age…” that it got me thinking… How ...
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As We Age...

As We Age...

I was talking to my team the other day about how they connect to the brand. Mind you most of my ...
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Looking Back...

Looking Back...

  I’ve been in denial a little… As I embark on my 15th year in business, I honestly can't believ...
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Domo arigato gozaimasu

Domo arigato gozaimasu

I love planning events and with our 15th anniversary coming up, the team and I began working on h...
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Happy Father's Day

Happy Father's Day

My father is an entrepreneur. He’s started more businesses than anyone I know. We had a travel ag...
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Dressing For a Petite Body

Dressing For a Petite Body

Shopping can sometimes be overwhelming—so many choices with so little information. As a shorter w...
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Happy Anniversary: Our one year in Manoa

Happy Anniversary: Our one year in Manoa

I love celebrating milestones . . . for other people. I rarely take the time to give myself a pat...
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Behind the scenes of a Sale

Behind the scenes of a Sale

When I first started this business, I approached it solely from the perspective of a fashion desi...
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Asian American Pacific Islander Month

Asian American Pacific Islander Month

I’ve never thought too much about being of Japanese descent. Growing up in Hawaii, it was common ...
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Being a Mother: "Do as I do"

Being a Mother: "Do as I do"

I’d normally start this blog off with something like - ‘being a mother is one of the hardest jobs...
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The Surrender Mindset

The Surrender Mindset

I always find it fascinating when things align. It tends to happen when I surrender and loosen m...
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Alliversary

Alliversary

In this new phase of my life, I realized that culturally I was taught to step out of the spotligh...
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Connection

Connection

There are days when I realize that there is more to my job and my purpose than just making clothi...
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The why behind A. IZU

The why behind A. IZU

As I get older, I'm finding myself wanting to challenge myself more - to live outside of the cons...
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Breaking the guidelines of others

Breaking the guidelines of others

As some of you know, I've been on a journey of self discovery. Call it my 40's, my mid-life crisi...
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The destination is the same, but the purpose is bigger

The destination is the same, but the purpose is bigger

You should always have a goal in mind when trying to accomplish anything. It's something that ins...
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Shifting my mindset during this renovation

Shifting my mindset during this renovation

Renovations are always hard - you have to put up with the usual unexpected costs and delays. Sinc...
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Coming Back to Manoa

Coming Back to Manoa

When the decision was made to move out of Ala Moana Center, I had no idea where we would go ne...
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One of the toughest jobs . . . Motherhood

One of the toughest jobs . . . Motherhood

Being a mom is one of the hardest yet most rewarding jobs . . . I didn't know coming into motherh...
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Self-realizations and the tools that guide me through them

Self-realizations and the tools that guide me through them

Hi there! Thank you for joining me on my personal journey of growth and self-discovery. I am grat...
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Standing In My Own Way

Standing In My Own Way

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Finding My Joy

Finding My Joy

When I first started designing in 2007, I wanted to create clothing that stood for something - t...
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A Message From Allison

I want to start off first by saying THANK YOU for being such an integral part of our journey at ...
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The Move - Part 1

The Move - Part 1

I like to joke that "change" is my middle name. I've become so accustomed to change, that it can...
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A Petite Perspective

A Petite Perspective

I was destined to be short . . . thats what I tell myself. My sister is 5'6" and I am barely 5'2...
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A Retrospective

A Retrospective

September is the month we celebrate "Alliversary" aka the anniversary of the brand. I think o...
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Think Big, Start Small

Think Big, Start Small

Empowerment is such a big word, those 11 letters can appear daunting when you stare at them. Empo...
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Who Am I To Ask For More?

Who Am I To Ask For More?

Be Grateful and Ambitious. This simple sentiment from Abby Wambach has been living in my mind eve...
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Redefining Who I Am

Redefining Who I Am

Blogging hasn't always been a primary focus for me. It’s not that I don't have anything to say—it...
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Lunar New Year Tips!

Lunar New Year Tips!

Happy New Lunar New Year everyone its the year of the metal ox! With the help of Jen Gonsalves (v...
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A11iversary - 11 years and counting

A11iversary - 11 years and counting

For me, September always marks the beginning of all that is good in the fashion world. The September Issue, Fall collections . . . and when I decided to celebrate the Allison Izu brand anniversary. Because after you’ve been working at a business for over 20 years, you kinda forget the date that it all started.
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With a heavy heart, we bid farewell to Kaimuki

With a heavy heart, we bid farewell to Kaimuki

This may come as a surprise to you (or maybe not), but I have decided to focus all my attention on the Ala Moana store. With a heavy heart, I must bid farewell to the Kaimuki store. This decision has not come easy for me. I prayed, meditated, made lists and Excel spreadsheets, tried to talk myself out of it, but the path ahead was clear and all signs pointed to the decision to focus on Ala Moana.
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Independence Day - setting ourselves free & truly loving our bodies

Independence Day - setting ourselves free & truly loving our bodies

What if we were finally independent of the existing thought patterns of our bodies and society’s norm of what we should look like . . . hmmm . . . it would be LIBERATING, right?!
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