Jonathan Simkhai has shown a number of patience and perseverance since starting his luxury women’s ready-to-wear brand 13 years ago.
The now-bicoastal designer began learning the ropes of the style industry on the age of 11 when he worked at a sweater outlet. At 14, he became an assistant buyer at a neighborhood boutique in his native Recent York.
After highschool, he attended each Parsons and the Fashion Institute of Technology — although he admits that he failed out of Parsons and never finished his studies at FIT — and leaned heavily on his experience at retail and at his family’s garment manufacturing business to develop the tools he needed to sooner or later create his own collection.
“Whatever I needed to do,...
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