About Jesus Arizabal III
A native New Yorker, he graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology with a Bachelors in Fashion Design specializing in Eveningwear. Design ran in the family, his grandmother, Amparo was a constant source of inspiration whose spanned over 40 years in the Garment District as a Head Pattern Maker.
He was excited to begin his career at Adrianna Papell and design special occasion dresses. His talents however were far more capable of designing a singular category. Flexing his design acumen across all categories of women’s wovens for companies such as MIXX apparel (a subsidiary of Joe Fresh sold at Cole’s Australia ) and the iconic New York and Company.
After Honing on in 5 years of women’s wovens design from dresses to sportswear. He was recruited directly by the Senior Designer and SVP of Design of Lord & Taylor to join the team as a Knits Designer with no knits background. Proving enormous design bandwidth and talent he became a valued asset to Hudson’s Bay Company's private label design team.
His meteoric yet steady ascent at HBC tested all facets of his creativity, leadership skills, and strategic abilities. Appointed to various design lead posts from women’s contemporary brand Scripted for Saks Fifth Avenue and Renvy for Saks off Fifth; to overseeing both Men’s and women’s active/ athleisure brand Askya for Hudson’s Bay and L&T; as well as spearheading design for HBC’s most highly publicized design collaborations in recent years: SJP by Sarah Jessica Parker for GILT and Le Cloud Amy Schumer and Leesa Evans for Saks Off 5th. His extensive appointments were all a testament to his strong work ethic, resolve, and ability to pivot.
In his most latest role at Hudson's Bay Company as Senior Design Manager & Product Development, he led a high performing men’s design team in strategic brand development and revitalization for 3 pillar men’s private brands (within Classic Modern, Modern Contemporary, and Tailoring) resulting in $48.8M in annual sales.
About Jesus Arizabal III
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