Meet Curry
Senior Patternmaker and Technical Designer
Born and raised in Fayetteville, Arkansas until moving to Raleigh, North Carolina for college. I attended North Carolina State University and received a Bachelor of Science degree from the Wilson College of Textiles with a focus on Fashion Development and Product Management in 2013. After graduation, I was offered a job at Elite Sportswear in Reading, Pennsylvania as a patternmaker. Having been a competitive gymnast and cheerleader for the greater part of my life, this job seemed too good to be true. Turns out it was all that and more. Elite Sportswear was the springboard I needed into the fashion industry and the foundation that any patternmaker could hope for. I had some of the most brilliant mentors in the industry, that I am certain. In 2017, my fiancé and I decided that we wanted a change of scenery and made the move to Indianapolis, Indiana where we currently reside with our two dogs and a cat.
Companies I have done work for:
My Journey
Ever since I touched my first sewing machine in 7th grade, apparel development has been my passion. From stapling scrap fabrics together when playing dress-up with my friends, to giving facelifts to second-hand clothing, to receiving a Bachelor of Science degree in Textiles with a focus of Fashion Development and Product Management from North Carolina State University’s Wilson College of Textiles, I have been determined to make the fashion industry my lifelong home. I live and breathe fashion, whether I am shopping for it, wearing it, or creating it.
It was in 2014 that I landed my first official industry job at Elite Sportswear. I was hired on as a patternmaker for custom gymnastics and cheerleading apparel. The job was both creatively and technically stimulating. It wasn’t until a year into this job that I knew my place in the industry was in patternmaking. No design can exist without a pattern. Patternmakers are the glue that holds design and production together. What better way to learn how to bring your designs to fruition than to spend everyday working with designers to bring their visions to life.
“Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play it safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.”
Cecil Beaton