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Jerry Holt/Star Tribune 5/14/2005 -- Joy Teiken is the designer behind Joynoelle, an emerging fashion design business. She was a teacher who decided to follow her dream and become a designer despite a lack of sewing skills. -- PUBLISHED CAPTION 6/4/2005: Joy Teiken's eclectic workroom is part studio, part conference room for meeting with clients. -- GENERAL INFORMATION: Joy is the designer behind Joynoelle, an emerging fashion design business. She was a teacher who decided to follow her dream and become a designer despite a lack of sewing skills, history, and the like. She's a finalist in a national fashion design contest in NYC on the 17th and recently won another. She makes one of a kind fashions on at this time, is fitting a bride's gown and motherof bride for a wedding in Italy this summer. This story is a profile of someone who had the guts to follow her instincts and she's on the verge of hitting it big. She's a really young-looking 37 - looks 20 - and is one of those freckle-faced girls that is so nice you think she can't be real - but she is and is learning the business her way. Running June 4 as lead on Variety cover. You are also most welcome to go back over there to shoot portraits or her working on other stuff - whatever you think makesthe story its very best. She's very open but is in NYC a few days next week. (Photo by JERRY HOLT/Star Tribune via Getty Images)