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Liza Vassell and the Art of Saying Yes
A Brooklyn beginning, an Italian education in fashion, and a Los Angeles showroom. Liza A. Vassell has built a career by recognizing possibilities before they come with an introduction.
Sandra Richter and the curious life of a park bench
She co-founded Soofa to put useful technology on the sidewalk. Now working as Sandra Ferguson, the Cambridge designer is turning songs into clothes - another way to bring an idea out into the world.
Adam Lippes bought back his name. Then he raised his standards.
After a corporate detour, Adam Lippes rebuilt his label around fine fabrics, exacting fit, and women with places to go. The interesting part of this luxury business is how closely the product follows the customer.
Patrick Collins Designs in Two Speeds: Campaign Scale and Slow-Built Fashion
The Los Angeles designer moves between the deadlines of a global activewear company and the deliberate work of building Le Chat Couture - proof that a creative career can run on more than one clock.
ATEAM wants the sketch, the sample, and the storefront to agree
A fashion brand has to make sense on a mood board, in a factory, and on a phone. ATEAM puts creative design, business consulting, and production support inside the same brief.
GUIZIO
GUIZIO is the New York womenswear label founded by self-taught designer Danielle Guizio in 2014. Built around signature corsets, structured suiting and form-fitting silhouettes with asymmetrical cut-outs and custom hardware, the brand grew from a $400 graphic-tee project in a New Jersey basement into a direct-to-consumer fashion house with a SoHo flagship, international showrooms and a celebrity following that includes the Hadids, the Kardashian-Jenners, Rosalia, Blackpink and Lady Gaga.
Areeb Ahmed
Areeb Ahmed is a Karachi-based real estate investment consultant and realtor who pairs a property career with a background in apparel and textile marketing. As Sales Marketing Manager at AGH Builders & Developers, he guides clients through property transactions toward homeownership, drawing on business-development experience built earlier at Rafique Trading Corporation. He describes himself as a real estate, fashion design, and pretwear enthusiast.
Raspberry AI
Raspberry AI is a New York-based generative AI platform built specifically for fashion creatives. It turns sketches, text prompts and 3D files into retail-ready imagery - mood boards, lifestyle and product photography, on-body try-ons and technical drawings - in minutes rather than weeks, replacing the slow, sample-heavy design workflow that has defined apparel for decades. Founded by Cheryl Liu and backed by Andreessen Horowitz, it counts Under Armour, MCM Worldwide, Li & Fung and Gruppo Teddy among its customers.
Cheryl Liu
Cheryl Liu is the founder and CEO of Raspberry AI, a New York generative-AI platform that turns fashion designers' sketches into retail-ready, photo-realistic images, technical drawings, and CAD files in minutes instead of months. A former KKR retail private-equity analyst who later built product and machine-learning teams at Amazon and DoorDash, she spotted the opening for fashion-specific image generation the moment DALL-E and Stable Diffusion arrived in late 2022. Raspberry AI now serves brands including Under Armour, J.Crew, Tapestry, and Li & Fung, raised a $24M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, and was named one of CB Insights' 2026 AI 100 as the only creative-AI application on the list.