Peter Kim

Fashion R&D and Design Leader with proven business growth expertise

 

Peter Kim is currently Managing Director for Michelle & T.  He is combining a business savvy approach with a strong creative vision and aesthetic. He can deliver a unified collection in either a merchant driven or design driven organization.

 

He has a proven background in either venue having benefited from almost 10 years of experience with agent, vendor, Fashion R&D company such as Li & Fung, SSTS and Michelle & T.

 

He has strong styling, and merchandising presentation background that allows him the flexibility to lead a design concept from inception to production while maintaining consistency in design intent, commercial fit, and trend driven styles. His approach is always about the customer first, and every decision supports the company’s vision and aesthetic.

 

His interpersonal skills and creative management help to build a collaborative work environment, maximizing the creative skills of others into one edit point that captures the best of many great minds.

 

Ariel Gold

Associate Designer & Trend Analyst

 

Ariel is currently an Associate Designer and Trend Analyst for Michelle and T.  She is a skilled and fast sketcher on Adobe Illustrator with multiple years of experience in the fashion industry.  Her ability to do ordinal sketching or sketching trends straight off the runway makes her an integral part of our team.  She is responsible for keeping the organization current and up-to-date on all spectrum of the fashion industry from Couture and Runways to Contemporary and Mass Market trends.  She creates original seasonal presentations of the runways by examining all the variations of the trends as well as monthly market analysis of what is currently present in stores from high-end to fast fashion.

 

Ariel has a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin – Madison as well as an Associates degree from the Fashion Institute of Technology, focusing on Apparel Design.  Prior to Michelle & T, she worked on the design teams for multiple women’s fashion brands in New York City.