They are groundbreakers in the first generation of startups in Iran.
"They are groundbreakers, facing resistance from many conservatives because they decided to go to a career where women are still not accepted," photographer Lena Mucha told In Sight.
Designers like Mr. Ghesquiere have the blessing and burden of being groundbreakers.
Some like Ms. Smith were groundbreakers, occasionally hard-drinking and rowdy, but sometimes they had to scrape by.
But if women were groundbreakers in Reform Judaism then, so they were once again this week, during the annual convention here of the movement's rabbinic organization, the Central Conference of American Rabbis.
Mr. Bartlett and his business partner, Marshall Fisher, were groundbreakers in the residential real estate industry -- among the first to enable hundreds, and later thousands, of brokers operating from their own offices to compete with the regional and national chains that began emerging in the late 1960s.
"At the very beginning, we were truly groundbreakers," said Rabbi Stern, who was ordained in 1983, barely a decade after the movement's first female rabbi.
"I do wish we were past it, but I understand that we're not," she said of her status as a groundbreaker.
In fashion, as in other creative endeavors, the groundbreakers are often the rule-breakers.
She applied to be a groundBREAKER.
The company has been a groundbreaker in this area before.
