Textiles & Fabric

Textile design is one of the design world’s most unique disciplines. Professionals in this field create designs that are used in the production of everything from clothing and furnishings to linoleum flooring and spacecraft insulation. Many of the designs created by textile designers are used repetitively, while others are a one shot deal. Depending on their specialty, textile designers may work in industrial environments alongside textile engineers, industrial designers and others, while others work in non-industrial settings such as design houses where they may work side-by-side with...

Laura Jaquinto's career has spanned more years than most of our aspiring fashionista readers have been alive. After graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design Laura became the Director of Merchandising for Bernard Chaus where she learned the ropes for 5 years starting in 1979. Since then she has held high-level positions at Bonaventure Textiles, Ralph Lauren, Adrienne Vittadini, Crown Productions and Shamash and Sons. Since 2008 Laura has been at Windham Fabrics (and their sibling companies Baum Textiles and Windham Home) as their Merchandise Director/ Director of Marketing and...