Creative director and brand consultant based in Brooklyn, New York.
Nicole is an industry recognized creative director and brand consultant with nearly 20 years of experience across multidisciplinary creative.
Her portfolio spans luxury fashion, start-ups, and multi-billion dollar brands. She has led brand identities, rebrands, collections, fashion films, lookbooks, and advertising campaigns; guiding companies on brand strategy, art direction, and design direction. She is the co-founder of award-winning sustainable womenswear brand, Cienne, providing her with firsthand experience and an instinctual approach to creating meaningful brands.
Nicole’s work has been featured in The New York Times, Vogue, Vogue Italia, Fast Company, Forbes, Vanity Fair, Elle, and more.
Nicole is a CFDA Award Winner, Woolmark Prize Finalist, and sustainable fashion expert.
She has participated in panels and presentations at educational institutions and conferences including Parsons School of Design, Fashion Institute of Technology, and the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA).
Profile
Originally from California, Nicole studied Visual Communications from 2001-2003 at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Los Angeles, and from 2003-2005, she studied Concept & Textiles at The Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. In 2013, she took a sabbatical through Africa in hopes of finding a meaningful way to merge business and design. In 2014, she founded Cienne, an award-winning womenswear brand that pioneered ethical and environmental practices. The brand was a semi-finalist in the 2018-2019 International Woolmark Prize and the recipient of the runner-up award in the 2018 CFDA + Lexus Fashion* Initiative. Since 2019, Nicole has been a brand and creative consultant, and has helmed creative leadership roles for a range of brands.