Alice Roi, born Alice Roy Blumenthal in 1976, is an American fashion design

Fashion design

Fashion design is the art of the application of design and aesthetics or natural beauty to clothing and accessories. Fashion design is influenced by cultural and social latitudes, and has varied over time and place. Fashion designers work in a number of ways in designing clothing and accessories....

er. Her work has appeared in magazines such as Bazaar, Elle, Nylon, and in stores like Henri Bendel

Henri Bendel

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 (New York), Beauty Buy (Paris), and Joyce (Hong Kong). She was nominated for the CFDA

Council of Fashion Designers of America

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 Perry Ellis Award for Womenswear in 2001.

Education

Her father, Jerry Blumenthal, died when she was 12. Her mother Naomi runs The Inn at Irving Place. She developed her love for fashion as a young child, putting on fashion shows for family and friends and putting together outfits.

After graduating from Friends Seminary

Friends Seminary

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, she earned a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from New York University

New York University

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, and went on to continue her studies at Parsons School of Design.

Career

Following a stint at Elle

Elle (magazine)

Elle is a worldwide magazine of French origin that focuses on women's fashion, beauty, health, and entertainment. Elle is also the world's largest fashion magazine. It was founded by Pierre Lazareff and his wife Hélène Gordon in 1945. The title, in French, means "she".-History:Elle was founded in...

magazine, she worked as a fashion consultant. Wanting to be more creative, she set up her own design house and launched her collection in New York 1999. Roi's collection was quickly picked up by Kirna Zabete in New York.

Her "punky yet girlish" look developed a following. Cathy Horyn

Cathy Horyn

Cathy Horyn is an American fashion journalist, working as the fashion critic for The New York Times where she also keeps a highly noted and provocative blog called...

 of The New York Times

The New York Times

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praised her for the "unique world" created by her "a delicious sartorial joke sense that has grown more and more sophisticated".

In 2007, she worked with Japanese retailer 24]]..

She continues to design in her Manhattan studio.

External links

• Website
• Alice Roi at style.com
  Style.com
  Style.com is a fashion website. It was formerly the online site for the fashion magazine Vogue and [W] W magazine featuring online versions of some of the magazine's content as well as internet-exclusive material such as event photographs and style-related articles, before Vogue developed its own...