The Story of My Art Form

Like a nautilus swimming backwards, I dove head first into my love for fabricating apparel. I had no formal training, but design seemed to make sense to me. I started with a small upcycling brand, and within months, started scaling onto larger and larger equipment.

Within a couple of years, I shifted my entire focus to industrial manufacturing, teaching myself every machine in my fleet. I am now an extremely skilled pattern maker, industrial machinist, mass cutter, grading specialist, and I have also taught myself an assortment of technology to develop tech packs, markers, and contract projects for other companies such as Sock It To Me, Cargo, and more.

Pattern Making

I have almost 20 years of pattern making experience, which includes flat pattern drafting to technical formatting for digitizing. From sketching a design concept to making an initial sample, I am able to create virtually any design that I want to.

I have drafted patterns for my own brand and have served as a pattern maker for other brands. Truthfully, this is my favorite part of apparel design.

Grading and Marking

My specialty in the apparel industry has become size gradations. With so few brand who can grade above a size XL, I decided to math out the work and do YEARS of research and development to bring my size gradations and size charts up to 6XL.

This expertise has enabled me to offer consultancy in this space for brands such as Nike.

Make it fit, beautifully!

Textile Sourcing

For many, textile sourcing is an intimidating space to dive into, chiefly because if done incorrectly, it can lead to margin issues, faulty product, incorrect fit, bad drape, and a slew of other issues.

It also takes a deep knowledge of how textiles are fabricated, how they are treated, where they are produced, and what their manufacturing idiosyncrasies are. In this space: I am an expert.

Margin Evaluations

Preparing a product for market is a delicate algorithm that takes everything into consideration, including the ‘shelf life’ of the garment. I use a very methodical technique to evaluate the true cost of a garment so that I can see its margins through the lifecycle of the product.

I am also a big advocate for brands venturing into the resale value of their products to support the longevity of wear and value. I believe in the second life of every garment, and there’s a margin hiding in there, too ;)