I was honored to receive the 2026 Neiman Marcus Distinguished Designer Award for Retail at the Driehaus Fashion Awards in Chicago. 

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The Driehaus Design Initiative Program invites a select few from Chicago's art schools such as  Dominican University, SAIC, and Columbia to participate and present their collections at the fashion award show.

 

At Dominican I was one out of the 13 senior class and only 6 were chosen for Driehaus.

 

At the award show I was one out of 18 designers featuring their collections and I was awarded the design award for retail.  

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Some time after I was recognized by a reporter from the Chicago Tribune that wrote a story about this accomplishment and what it meant to me. Which you can see below.