Toni Scott Grant is a successful entrepreneur,
celebrity wardrobe/costume stylist and motivational speaker. Prominently
featured in the HarperCollins published, “The Mocha Manual to Turing Your
Passion into Profit,” Toni chronicles her journey as the owner of ‘Scott Phree”,
a former Houston-based fashion boutique.
Currently
Toni’s most passionate power play by far is being CEO and Head Designer of Haus
of Swag, a registered trademark brand of apparel and accessories founded in
2011.
Earlier in her career, Toni studied Fashion
Merchandise and Management at NY’s venerated Fashion Institute of Technology.
While in school, Toni landed a job as a showroom assistant for a celeb-favored
women’s fashion brand in the heart of NYC’s fashion district. This opportunity
put her considerable talents directly in front of stylists and editors from
wildly-popular magazines including Vogue, Women’s Wear Daily, Essence, Glamour,
and InStyle as well as assisting in the style division of TV shows such as The
View and MTV’s House of Style. She also learned a considerable amount regarding
the business retail aspect of fashion which aided in her own start-up journey.
Toni would later become freelance honing her craft
as a fashion and prop stylist across several mediums, including film,
television and print and counted clients from the elit world of Hollywood to
the grit of Hip Hop. More recently, Toni has worked as a fashion and set
costumer for live action shows such as Disney Entertainment, Marvel Universe
LIVE, Cirque de Soleil, Miley Cyrus’s “Bangerz” tour, CBS’s televised “Fashion
Rocks’, Justin Timberlake’s “20/20 Experience” tour, Madonna’s “Rebel Hear Tour”
as well as Arianna Grande’s “The Honeymoon Tour.”
She is deeply passionate about the empowerment of
women and young girls. In 2011, Toni was a guest speaker for Project LEAD, a
Houston-based organization where she presented a college prep career workshop
about fashion styling and costuming to a group of at-risk high school senior
girls. The following year, she was invited to be a panelist at “Female Power,”
a symposium of successful Houston-area entrepreneurs moderated by Houston’s Fox
26 news. Toni has also appeard on Arise TV's, "Arise and Shine" and ABC 7, "here And Now."
Recipient of the 'Entrepreneur of the Year' award in 2009, Toni has long been committed to raising the bar for herself. In addition to her degree in Speech Communications, she has studied abroad at the American University of Rome furthering her interpersonal expertise and art history respectively. In 2014, Toni was selected from among thousands of participants to be one of the five women chosen as the “Face of Flower”, a cosmetics company owned by award-winning actress, screenwriter and film producer Drew Barrymore.
Recipient of the 'Entrepreneur of the Year' award in 2009, Toni has long been committed to raising the bar for herself. In addition to her degree in Speech Communications, she has studied abroad at the American University of Rome furthering her interpersonal expertise and art history respectively. In 2014, Toni was selected from among thousands of participants to be one of the five women chosen as the “Face of Flower”, a cosmetics company owned by award-winning actress, screenwriter and film producer Drew Barrymore.
She is a proud member of the Local 764 Theatrical
Wardrobe Union (I.A.T.S.E.) of NY and has volunteered for the CFDA (Council of
Fashion Designers of America) New York Fashion Week. She resides in Brooklyn,
NY with her husband and son.
