LOS ANGELES - Fashion designer, Elle B. Mambetov, first started learning about the fashion business after moving to China to observe the manufacturing of clothing. From there, she moved to London where she became well known at the catwalks and ateliers. When Mambetov discovered that her own friend had been using her name and business to commit fraud, she found herself in prison, facing a reality she had never known before. “It just turns into this nightmare that you can’t believe is your own reality,” said Mambetov, “That experience definitely stole so much of my creativity, so it was taking time to really see how I could start to rebuild myself.” Upon leaving prison two years later, Mambetov was determ...