Fashion School News Alumni Spotlight: 2005 Fashion and Knitwear Graduate Jamie Mihlrad joins Kate Spade

Jamie Mihlrad has accepted a position at Kate Spade in New York.

A 2005 MFA Fashion and Knitwear Design Graduate, she was selected by Guest of Honor Carla Sozzani to work in Milan. Jamie was the sole designer responsible for the signature 10 Corso Como line of apparel and products, including collaborative projects with MAC, Converse, Diesel Jeans and Mackintosh of London. For a year, she designed the private label line as well as the signature cashmere sweaters, trenchcoats, handbags and various other apparel and products under the direction of Sig.na Sozzani.

Returning to New York, Jamie became an associate designer for L.A.M.B collection, under the creative direction of Gwen Stefani.

Jamie Mihlrad

A look from her May 2005 runway collection. Photo by Randy Brooke.

Jamie, along with Sara Shepherd and Rhice Mannelli Brewer, showed her collection under the tents in Bryant Park during Olympus Fashion Week in September 2005. Photos by Randy Brooke.

Congrats Jamie!

Fashion Illustration School News: Gladys Perint Palmer illustration of Carla Sozzani in New York Times Magazine

In the upper right hand corner is an illustration of Carla Sozzani by fashion illustrator Gladys Perint Palmer, also the Executive Director of the School of Fashion at Academy of Art University.

Carla Sozzani was a 2005 guest to the fashion department and chose student Jamie Mihlrad to work with her in Milan, Italy.