About Jesus Arizabal III

A native New Yorker, Jesus graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Fashion Design, specializing in Evening-wear. Design ran in the family, his grandmother was a significant influence whose career spanned over 40 years in the garment district as a head pattern maker.

He began his career at Adrianna Papell designing special occasion dresses. His talents however proved more capable of designing a singular category. Flexing his design acumen across all categories of women’s wovens for brands such as MIX Apparel and the iconic New York and Company.

After honing 5 years of women’s wovens design experience from dresses to sportswear, he was recruited by the SVP of Design and Senior Designer at Lord & Taylor. He joined the team as a Knits Designer with no prior knits experience. Proving enormous design bandwidth and talent he was 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 for Saks Fifth Avenue and Saks off Fifth;  to overseeing both men’s and women’s active/ athleisure brands 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 and Le Cloud Amy Schumer and Leesa Evans. His extensive appointments are 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 of 3 pillar men’s private brands (within Classic Modern, Modern Contemporary, and Tailoring) resulting in $48.8M in annual sales.