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Early Life
She began styling children's clothing when she first made dresses for her two daughters, Marisa Moore and Elena Calabrese. As she made these dresses, her cousin, Tom Marotta, who was a buyer for a children's department store in Philadelphia, was intrigued by her designs and had Joan introduce her dresses to the store. This Children's Boutique owned by Linda Berman started to buy her self-sewn dresses, which started off her career. For the first couple of years of sewing dresses, she only worked on them herself, but as her children's dresses got introduced into her boutiques she began to hire seamstress. As she began to become more known, her dresses were now in Cerutti's on Madison Avenue, New York. After this well-known store bought her clothing, more and more companies wanted her dresses, which led to her name getting out there. She was one of the few stylist for high style clothing for children. Calabrese also made women's handbags, but was more inspired to do children's clothing and continued on with couture for kids.

Work
For many years she worked under her own label, Joan Calabrese INC. She bought her own fabrics from Paris, Europe, where she traveled twice a year. Her office was primarily in the basement of her house in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania. Many people in the high end world scheduled to meet with her in order to get specialized dresses for their children. When she first started creating these unique dresses she made about 2500 dresses a year by herself.

Career and Achievements
Joan's two biggest accomplishments were being approved by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, who accepted two of Joan's dresses for the Permanent Collection of their Costume Institute[6]and she is also featured in the Costume Collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art[7]

In order to be a part of these museums, an artists' work was judged and then approved. Joan Calabrese being the designer, marketer and sales-person of her clothing, introduced her own work to the museum by calling and setting up a date to observe her work in order to consider it for these museums.

She also won the DEBI award every year and still continues to win even after her passing.

Willow Smith wore her dress in the Fashion Catwalk at The Dubai Mall.

When Dakota Fanning wore her dress, Joan Rivers was the most and asked her who she was wearing and Dakota answered Joan Calabrese. This also got Joan more known in the fashion industry and kicked off her career even more.

Mon Cheri
As Joan Calabrese got older, she licensed with Mon Cheri for about 10 years. Here she illustrated many dresses for weddings and communion and focused mainly on flower girl wear. When she got to Mon Cheri, she did not hand sew her dresses anymore and instead they were done in the factory.