They are deemed, recognized, acknowledged, and known as our saviors, helpers, and support systems, who are strong, resilient, hard-working, reliable, educated, intellectual, and confident human beings, who provide professional and high-quality healthcare services to us lay people, all around the world. Having taken an oath and studied vast concepts and subjects in Medicine, our Healthcare professionals are truly amazing and skilled people in whose hands we place our trust and lives.
In other fashion and apparel industries and sectors that are present worldwide, companies, businesses, and organizations have taken into regard factors such as fashion sense, color, style, comfort, durability, and maintenance of their clothing line as a top priority. This attracts and engages customers with their brand and rakes in profits when the latter feels that they are valued and that the brand is built on the principle of providing services that showcase a customer-centric business model over the idea of just wanting to ‘make money’.
As much as there are brands who put in the time, effort, skill, and workforce talent into specifically curating and designing clothing lines for athletes for comfort, ease, performance, action, and durability, the same concept and principle must be taken into consideration for our ‘Life-Savers’ – Our Healthcare Professionals.
In answer to this, the following article will cover the works, story, and inspirational journey of two inspiring women entrepreneurial founders – Heather Hasson and Trina Spear who together built a company for comfortable healthcare uniforms from the ground up and have been redefining healthcare attire and comfort in the industry ever since at FIGS.
About the Co-Founders and Entrepreneurs – Heather Hasson and Trina Spear:
The two women entrepreneurs who were inspired and motivated to start a clothing line and apparel business together for Healthcare professionals and providers, have revolutionized and redefined the Scrubs uniform that our ‘Life-Savers’ wear.
“AWESOME HUMANS #wearfigs.”
Heather Hasson – is the Co-Founder, Co-Chief Executive Officer, and the Executive Chairwoman of FIGS. Having a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science, the co-founder worked in a board member position at RxArt for over 4 years. After this, Heather Hasson co-founded FIGS Healthcare Clothing – a retail apparel and fashion D2C brand that specializes in designing and manufacturing a clothing line of “Scrubs” in the Healthcare Industry.
Heather was inspired to start FIGS through a huge revelation that she had one day. She had been out meeting a nurse-practitioner friend whose Scrubs looked quite uncomfortable. This was the kick-starter of her life-changing journey thereon.
With Heather Hasson’s leadership in her managerial position at FIGS, she stands as a strong inspiration to provide quality, care, support, concern, and steadfast passion towards designing Scrubs for comfortable and stylish wear by our ‘Life-Savers’. Having been named the ‘100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs’ in Goldman Sachs consecutively in 2018 and 2019, as well as being awarded the ‘Innovation Award’ by the RxArt Foundation in 2019, the co-founder has achieved many more awards and recognitions in the USA for her accomplishments and efforts.
“Healthcare professionals are the ones inventing and creating our future………..we believe that we can fulfil our duty to enrich the lives of healthcare professionals and elevate their everyday experience…..” – Heather Hasson – Co-Founder, Co-Chief Executive Officer, and the Executive Chairwoman.
FIGS’ Tagline – “Why wear Scrubs, when you can #wearFIGS?”
Trina Spear – is the Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer at FIGS Healthcare Clothing, along with Heather Hasson. Trina Spear has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics and an MBA from Harvard. Having quite an experience working as an Associate in Blackstone Group (an investment business and company) as well as 4 years in Citigroup’s Investment Banking and Private Equity Divisions.
“Our commitment at FIGS is to transform what it means to be a healthcare professional.” – Trina Spear – Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer.
Together with her partner at FIGS – Heather Hasson, Trina Spear was named the ‘100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs’ in Goldman Sachs consecutively in 2018 and 2019, and ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ by Ernst and Young in 2018.
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About the Comapany – FIGS:
Founded in the year 2013 and established in Santa Monica, California, in The United States of America. Heather Hasson and Trina Spear are the two women co-founders who have founded this company together on their entrepreneurial mission to serve healthcare professionals and providers with the best service in apparel. FIGS was recognized and ranked number 21 in ‘Inc. Magazine’s Inc. 5000 Ranking’ for being the fastest growing companies in the nation in 2018. Figs is a Direct-to-Customer (D2C) business model and brand that designs and manufactures with advanced technological innovation alongside the healthcare Industry to provide its professionals with stylish medical Scrubs that are of good quality, soft, and premium fabrics that are stitched for individual’s comfort, performance, action, durability, style, fashion, and maintenance. The proprietary Scrubs material that is used by FIGS in the designing and manufacturing process in apparel for both men and women is FIONx Technology. This technology provides the following features – wrinkle-free fabric material, integrates the 4-way stretch for better durability and active wear, soft, and quick-drying.
Mission Statement of FIGS – “Improving the experience of being a healthcare worker advocating for their health, safety, and hapiness at work is an essential part of our mission.”
In the healthcare apparel innovation of the Medical sector, it is understandably and quite frankly very important for our ‘Life-Savers’ to perform and carry out their duties efficiently and effectively. Especially when working 24/7 and 365 days of the year, it is very essential for our healthcare professionals and providers to be able to move and wear attire that is comfortable, which makes them feel at ease, and which does not deter but rather helps in increasing and improving their work performance.
The FIGS App is also a downloadable application on smartphones for people to have easy access and use of checking out the collections that are being dropped everyday. A movement called ‘Threads for Threads’ is also an inspiring initiative taken up by the two co-founders so that they can ‘give back’ to the community and the people by providing and distributing Scrubs for healthcare professionals and providers in a timely and hygienic fashion. Heather Hasson and Trina Spear have proved time and time again that their brand- FIGS is more than just a uniform by also a form and kind of self-identity, safety, and unity.