Karen is a creative director who defines how brands look, feel, and live in the world. With 25 years in fashion and retail, she has worked across every side of the industry (editorial, design, and retail), giving her a rare ability to connect creative brand positioning to business results. Karen has set the creative vision for some of fashion’s best-known American heritage brands, leading campaigns, launches, and seasonal storytelling from concept through execution.
Karen began her career as a market editor at ELLE, where she mastered the art of curation that still shapes her work. While at ELLE, she launched her own label, AKA New York, which debuted at Barneys New York and was embraced by press and buyers alike. For eight years she led the brand from the ground up, shaping everything from the collections to the imagery and storytelling that brought them to market.
She then moved to the retail side as a fashion director, where she led image-making, brand storytelling, and styling for Kate Spade and vineyard vines. The combination of editorial instinct and hands-on brand-building means her creative work is always rooted in strategy: producing images and visual storytelling that reinforce a brand's DNA and resonate with its customer.
Karen brings an editor's eye, a designer's hand, and a merchant's objective to every project she works on.