We are a woman-lead and founded apparel company known for creating Smooth Duo® Leggings with Built-in Underwear. We make panty line free leggings with comfortable active underwear sewn into every pair as part of our growing collection of activewear designed for a woman's whole lifestyle. All of our high quality luxury activewear is produced in the USA in NYC factories and we design every garment to help women feel powerful, seen, supported and to shine by the light of their own brilliance with more ease.

Lead seasonal research of trends and color to fuel the creative process for Concept team. Kicked off seasonal ideation by creating and presenting monthly concepts with mood boards and color palettes with flows for Men’s and Women’s handbag teams while supporting commercial concept needs. Created and communicated concepts around brand collaboration opportunities with mood and design boards. Brainstormed and presented ideas for collaboration opportunities and what those designs could look like.

• Responsible for driving trend, elevating brand image and insuring product cohesion across licensed categories• Partnered with marketing and editorial to influence the styling of product in brand collateral and online features• Lead product selection for all photo shoots, providing direction for the stylist and on-set team for each shoot• Kicked off each season’s development with concepts backed by trend, color and print research• Created concepts to steer mood, color, print, design direction and top tier pieces in collections• Managed licensee design teams from a design milestone perspective• Drove trend by shopping NY and European markets for artwork, embellishments and references• Provided brand centric constructive feedback to product design teams throughout development process• Provided direction and development support for handbag category re-launch including work with new factories

Expand and grow the product category to include new silhouettes with innovations through materials, trim and user experience. Materials inspired by activewear and outdoor categories and the classic Chuck Taylor.Pull inspiration, sketch, create technical design packages and constant research of innovations in function and material.

Responsible for the design and development of handbags and small leather goods. Developed product from concept, to sketch, to tech pack development and final samples. Constant communication with China office to insure proper understanding of the tech packs and construction details from first to final samples.

Sketched and created tech packs for handbags, small leather goods and fashion accessories. Corrected prototypes from first through final samples.

Designed and develop children's fashion accessories including headwear, bags, hair accessories, layette etc. Worked closely with the in house sample maker providing direction for sample making. Merchandised showroom with the product assortment. Overseas communication/ tech packs.

Sourced leathers, materials and trims for apparel and accessories design teams in the NY Garment district. Delivered tech packs and materials to NYC sample rooms and checked assembly/ execution. Assisted in the pattern room.

Assisted with casting models for NY fashion week, editorials and ad campaigns

Wrote weekly fashion column in University of Delaware newspaper