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• 2009 New Fashion Collection of Rachel Roy

  
  12 February 2009
  

  2009 New Fashion Collection of Rachel Roy

  
  

  Rachel Roy: Fashion Designer

  
  

  When we first met Rachel Roy in the summer of 2005 - during which we spent a long afternoon together for a designer shopping profile - we came away thinking that the California native was one of the kindest, most gracious people we’d ever met. Two years on, Roy’s eponymous womenswear collection – while still feminine, elegant and vintage-inspired – has grown by leaps and bounds, she has several well-received Fashion Week presentations under her belt, and she was recently inducted, along with 29 other up-and-coming designers, into the Council of Fashion Designers of America. And she remains one of the kindest, most gracious people we’ve ever met. Roy's background in a nutshell: she loved fashion from an early age and worked at stores like Contempo Casuals before getting a degree in communications at Columbia Union College in Washington, D.C. After moving to New York post-graduation, she worked as a magazine and video stylist prior to becoming design director of Rocawear juniors, the clothing company her husband, Rocafella Records CEO Damon Dash, co-founded with Jay-Z (a title she holds to this day). The Fashion Informer caught up with the 33-year-old Roy between her two design gigs and her other full-time job - as wife to Dash and “mama” to the couple’s seven-year-old daughter, Ava – earlier this month.

  
  

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