FRIENDS with BENEFITS designer fashion

We want to create a curated store where we utilize fashion, art and music to create a memorable shopping experience.

  • Stage Full Product Ready
  • Industry Fashion
  • Location New York City, NY, USA
  • Currency USD
  • Founded January 2009
  • Employees 4
  • Website friendswithbenefitslifestyle.com

Company Summary

We are a women's fashion company that not only designs clothes but coordinates with other designers to create curated and special pieces that customers can enjoy. We create high fashion clothing collections that are supported by the collaborations with accessory designers, shoe designers, perfumers, musicians etc... A collective that is fine tuned to present to style conscious clients in search of something new and interesting.

Team

  • Lynn Levoy
    Creative Director

    BA in communications from Boston University. Levoy began her career working in the PR Department of designer Mark Eisen, then went on to work at the PR Agency, Harrison Shriftman. She then left PR to follow her passion of fashion styling. First at Vanity Fair and New York Magazine, then as a celebrity stylist, for clients that included Elle McPherson, Sarah and Wendi Murdoch

  • Edwige Nordelus
    Assistant Designer

    BFA in Fashion design from Massachusetts’s college of Art in Boston
    Edwige Assists in the design of the collection. Assist in Patternmaking, Draping and Production. Nordelus is talented and a quick study. She understands the DNA of the brand and executes designs with ease and creative flair. Nordelus understands the technical nuances, which make her a very important and integral part of the team

  • Krysta Kerr
    Assistant Designer

    BA in Fashion Design from Georgia Southern University in Statesboro Georgia.
    Responsibilities: Assisting in the design of the collection. Patternmaking, Draping and Production.
    Kerr started with us about a year ago and has adapted very quickly and has become an integral part of the design team. Kerr Understands the aesthetic and helps push the collection forward

  • Clark Sabbat
    Design Director

    Fashion Design and Illustration at the Parsons School of Design. Women’s Tailoring and Patternmaking at F.I.T, Designed collections for different companies in Paris, France and in NYC since 1991. Owned and operated own clothing store in NYC, as well as, working in sales & personal shopper at Barney’s New York. free-lanced at Armani and sold sketches to Jitrois, YSL and Dior.
    Design, production, management and merchandising of collections.

Advisors

  • Kevin Waite
    Lawyer
    Unconfirmed
    Marcko Rucio
    Accountant
    Unconfirmed

Previous Investors

  • Brett Pollak
    Unconfirmed
    Bob and Martha Levoy
    Unconfirmed

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