By Pat Doody
Welcome Nannette Keller
Business Spotlight
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Chloe Keller, Nannette Keller and sales manager Lindsay Hajas.
For those of you who have not visited the new boutique, Nannette Keller, at 116 South Robinson across from City Hall, be prepared for a feast of color and style for all women. The Nannette Keller Boutique offers several designs in natural fabrics of cotton, linen, and silk. The store carries sizes from petite to plus and everything in between. It is with great pride that all of Nannette's garments are created and produced in the USA.
Nannette and her husband, Roger, moved to Tehachapi in April of this year from Ventura County, and opened the new store shortly after. Nannette wanted a place to share the wide sampling of designs that have become the Nannette Keller signature style. Until recently, the Kellers employed 80 seamstresses at their Fillmore facility to produce the Nannette Keller line.
Nannette has always loved fashion and knew at an early age that she wanted to be a fashion designer. At 17, she moved from her childhood home in Michigan to New York City to study design at the Fashion Institute of Technology (F.I.T.). It was her flair for outrageous costumes that eventually led her to Los Angeles where she married entrepreneur and restauranteur Roger Keller.
Over a ten year period, Nannette designed for two major sportswear companies in Los Angeles; however, when her husband opened The Back Stage Cafe in Ojai, CA, the couple relocated to Ojai. While living there, Nannette designed for an outdoor clothing company, Gramicci, located in Oxnard. As Vice President of Design and Merchandising, she was responsible for expanding merchandise from the traditional climbing apparel to a line of camping and hiking clothing for today's outdoor lifestyle.
In 1993, Nannette launched the Nannette Keller Collection with her husband Roger. Her target market is the busy working woman who refuses to give up comfort for style. Unique fabrics and textures have always been her passion; therefore, Nannette creates and manufactures many of her own fabrics and buttons. Additionally, she garment dyes many of her styles, so most everything in the store is already preshrunk and machine washable.
Nannette's designs have been marketed nationwide and found at better department stores like Nordstroms's. Her clothing has appeared in catalogs such as Coldwater Creek and Soft Surroundings, and was featered in several TV shows on QVC. The Nannette Keller designs are perfect for the casual living atmosphere of Tehachapi.
Stop by her shop the next time you are downtown. The Nannette Keller boutique is open seven days a week, Monday through Saturday 10:30-6, and Sunday 11-3. Nannette will be open on First Friday Downtown, July 1 and she is also staying open on Thursday evenings during Farmer's Market which incidentally is right across Tehachapi Boulevard in Railroad Park.
