Jennifer Rothwell

Born in New York, and raised in Dublin, Jennifer Rothwell graduated with honours from the National College of Art and Design in 1995. While at NCAD she was won many prestigious awards. In 1995 she emigrated fulltime to New York where she acquired extensive NYC fashion experience. Jennifer Rothwell is highly experienced in the fashion field with over 12 years fashion design/production experience. Jennifer Rothwell knows the A to Z of the fashion industry as she gained vast experience as the director of Design and Production for many high profile NY companies. Jennifer accredits her most valuable experience at Norma kamali where she worked for over 4 years. She later went on to work and gain further fashion experience with Katayone Adeli, Calvin Klein, Language and Yigal Azrouel and worked at Director level in all companies mentioned. In August 06 Jennifer decided to launch her own label, Jennifer Rothwell. After only a short 7 months launched the Jennifer Rothwell label was chosen as one of the winners of the "Brown Thomas Designer Mentor Programme Award” at Dublin Fashion Week. As a result Jennifer previewed her RTW Autumn Winter at Brown Thomas with great success! As quoted on the Brown Thomas website: New York born Dublin resident Jennifer Rothwell's superb tailoring, innovative designs and beautifully cut feminine dresses caught the eye of Brown Thomas Buying Director Stephen Sealey and Head of Fashion Direction Shelly Corkery. Jennifer Rothwell’s garments are made of innovative designs, luxurious fabrics paired with high quality garment finishing. Her manufacturing contacts also work with the crème de la crème of the international fashion industry. They include Oscar De La Renta, Calvin Klein Collection, Michael Kors and Marc Jacobs to name but a few. Jennifer says of her own work: ‘Once you have worked for the Couture end of the industry where great design and top quality finished garments are produced and the norm you in turn expect nothing less of your own collection. I am a perfectionist and I want my garments to look great inside and out’. Jennifer designs for the sophisticated woman, that doesn’t follow trends necessarily. Her ideal customer is a woman who knows what she wants, appreciates high quality and buys her garments as investment buys, timeless fashion that will always look great year after year! She is inspired by luxurious fabrics, her own sense of colour, great design and fit. She prides herself with attention to detail paired with beautiful fabrics/trimmings. Jennifer’s fabric choices include Silks Charmeuse, Silk Chiffon, French Laces, Matt Jersey, Smocked Viscose and beautiful Braided Trimmings.