Sofia Prochilo Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, California, United States

During my time at Ripley Rader the company has exponentially grown; when I first began we were happy to get five orders in a day and now we are getting hundreds to thousands. Working with a small team within a growing company allows for trial and error to see what works. Over these years I have begun to identify my voice as well as the voice of the company and have been learning how to amplify said voice through our designs, campaigns, photo shoots, and styling. Additionally, working with a company based here in Los Angeles has put me close to our factories, distributors, fabric suppliers, label makers, and every piece that goes into our company. Working closely with every area of the brand has provided me with an expansive understanding of what we need and how to better ourselves. Understanding the creative side of the company, the logistics that go into it, and understanding the identity of our consumer has created countless prosperous ideas and opportunities.

Los Angeles, California, United States

Having worked in the fashion industry for four years by the time I came to Michele Marie, I had a vast understanding of fashion itself and was able to bring my existing skills into the PR space and take my PR learnings back into the fashion design space. I was the showroom intern at this fashion PR firm and worked directly with our clients. I ran all stylist pulls, maintained showroom upkeep, created client target lists, and organized and ran our event pulls. Working with stylists to pull looks for their clients heightened my ability to assess personal style of people distant from me and express that through their clothes as well as improve my own customer service and client relation skills.

Los Angeles, California, United States

Through my time at Thale Blanc I worked on styling our campaigns and producing content. I also planned and ran our sales events, client events, and trunk shows. I worked with our creative teams as well as our distributors. Working within a small company focused on high fashion I was able to explore the creative side while working to bridge it commercially. Working with them throughout COVID added a new challenge to navigate as it became increasingly difficult to maintain our sales, but this offered an opporunity to curate new skills and problem solve on a market level.

Los Angeles, California, United States

Throughout my senior year of high school I worked as a research intern for a non-profit organization, United Friends of the Children, aimed at providing aid for foster youth in Los Angeles. Due to the height of COVID and the vulnerability of this population I worked remotely for the whole year, but was lucky to work closely with their Director of Institutional Giving, CEO, and Senior Development Manager. During these trying times my primary assignment was to dive into research, assess the needs of these kids, and relay this back to the team. In correspondence with my research I produced the monthly newsletter that was sent to our mailing list and put on our site. While this was different than my work in the fashion industry, my passion is one and the same and it expanded my collaborative abilities further. All of these works were compiled to create the annual funding proposal that gave me skills of addressing strengths and weaknesses, separating wants and needs, and assessing funding allocation.