Pamela Ptak is the owner/designer of the Ready-To-Wear fashion line “Pamela Ptak,” which creates ladies dresses and separates, as well as casual menswear with intriguing and unusual lines, textures, and motifs. She also designs custom couture gowns under the label “Ptak Couture™”.
Pamela Ptak received her bachelors degree in Art & Design from Pratt Institute and did further studies in fashion design and pattern making at the French founded Maison Sapho School of Dressmaking & Design and at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City - a total of 8 years of higher education.
She’s a frequent lecturer on design and creativity across the US, owner of the Arts and Fashion Institute™, a fashion study program initiated in 2003 to inspire and advance the skills of fashion design professionals, fashion college grads, and fine sewing enthusiasts, which now includes instruction in fine arts and comic book arts. She is the author of Fashion Portfolios 101: Presentation Techniques for Independent Designers & Dressmakers (Glass Lane Press, 2003) - available through her studio - which she wrote to assist home sewers wishing to establish their own home-based fashion design businesses.
Her fashion illustrations have been included in exhibitions and exhibit catalogs at Le Musee des Arts Asiatique in Nice, France, at the Puck Gallery in NYC and on the ABC-TV program Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. Her work & studio were featured on Lifetime TV when she was a fashion designer on Project Runway Season 7. Her studio was featured on WLVT-TV’s PBS program Tempo and she has been profiled on WWW.VIVMAG.COM, WWW.SOCOMAGAZINE.COM, featured in print in the Feb/March 2010 issue of Soco Magazine and the Fall Couture Fashion issue of Bucks magazine. Her garments have graced the cover and cover stories in the 2012 and 2013 Couture issues of Stitches Magazine. Her newspaper write-ups are too numerous to list, but you may read a small selection on the press page at www.pamelaptak.com.
Pamela curates fashion design exhibits for design schools and her gallery featuring garments by major international designers. She curated the 2012 Allentown, PA exhibit "Frock & Roll: Fashion That Rocks", regular exhibits at AFI™, and will be featured in two regional fashion exhibits in 2014.
Bio from The Arts and Fashion Institute Official Website
Pamela Ptak received her bachelors degree in Art & Design from Pratt Institute and did further studies in fashion design and pattern making at the French founded Maison Sapho School of Dressmaking & Design and at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City - a total of 8 years of higher education.
She’s a frequent lecturer on design and creativity across the US, owner of the Arts and Fashion Institute™, a fashion study program initiated in 2003 to inspire and advance the skills of fashion design professionals, fashion college grads, and fine sewing enthusiasts, which now includes instruction in fine arts and comic book arts. She is the author of Fashion Portfolios 101: Presentation Techniques for Independent Designers & Dressmakers (Glass Lane Press, 2003) - available through her studio - which she wrote to assist home sewers wishing to establish their own home-based fashion design businesses.
Her fashion illustrations have been included in exhibitions and exhibit catalogs at Le Musee des Arts Asiatique in Nice, France, at the Puck Gallery in NYC and on the ABC-TV program Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. Her work & studio were featured on Lifetime TV when she was a fashion designer on Project Runway Season 7. Her studio was featured on WLVT-TV’s PBS program Tempo and she has been profiled on WWW.VIVMAG.COM, WWW.SOCOMAGAZINE.COM, featured in print in the Feb/March 2010 issue of Soco Magazine and the Fall Couture Fashion issue of Bucks magazine. Her garments have graced the cover and cover stories in the 2012 and 2013 Couture issues of Stitches Magazine. Her newspaper write-ups are too numerous to list, but you may read a small selection on the press page at www.pamelaptak.com.
Pamela curates fashion design exhibits for design schools and her gallery featuring garments by major international designers. She curated the 2012 Allentown, PA exhibit "Frock & Roll: Fashion That Rocks", regular exhibits at AFI™, and will be featured in two regional fashion exhibits in 2014.
Bio from The Arts and Fashion Institute Official Website