Tenisha ✩

a trip down memory lane 𖦹 before i look towards the next era of Ten Wilde, i wanted to look back one last time on the last 10 years & what it really looked like building this brand from the ground up 🥹🤞🏽🪄

straight out of high school, almost everyone i knew took the traditional route and went off to college. i instead traveled to all corners of the world & constantly attended festivals.. learning about not just different cultures far & wide, but also learning about myself.

during these formative years, i tried many different crafts - leatherwork, djing, building for festivals, crocheting cute festival clothing, jewelry… i also built an amazing community around me of creators, dreamers, and doers ⭐️

come 2016, jewelry was the thing that stuck, and i decided to officially launch Ten Wilde… these were some of my first designs 🥹

upon officially launching my brand, the community i had built for years immediately supported me in every which way. whether styling, modeling, or stocking their shops, they were including Ten Wilde 🫶🏽

this was the first ever photoshoot, the Spring Summer 16 collection, my friends modeled & photographed ✨

i started vending a ton.. at art shows all over the bay area, at festivals up and down the west coast, truly anywhere and everywhere... i was on the go 24/7, while simultaneously enjoying my time at these events.

at this point all of my friends & i had brands or were building in one way or another 🪄we attended every event we could - we didn’t always have a plan, sometimes we didn’t even have tickets to these things or a place to stay, but we always had a car to get us there and a dream!

that dream alone would get us wherever & whatever we wanted, and with that we always found ourselves on every stage & at every big party. the hustle was strong and where there was a will there was a way, ALWAYS.

i was still traveling internationally when i could too, but this time more intentionally..

i was constantly connecting and meeting up with creators, models & photographers, all over the world and doing collab photoshoots in Ten Wilde! i was also getting Ten Wilde stocked in every store i came across that i loved. real boots on the