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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.
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.
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.
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.