Color & Trend Forecasting, Future of the Home, Micro-Enterprise Development
Patti Carpenter
Designer, Global Trends Consultant & Fashion Taste-Maker
Patti is Principal of carpenter + company. She’s an award-winning fashion and interior design trend forecaster, lifestyle and culture futurist, and micro-enterprise specialist.
Her career has spanned the gamut from concept and product development to global sourcing and supply chain development; from merchandising to scaling markets globally; from color analysis and trend forecasting for the most influential taste-makers in the industry, like Pantone and Maison & Object in Paris, where she serves as Global Ambassador, to advising the US President on small business growth and economic development.
Graduating from the Fashion Institute of Technology, Patti worked at the epicenter of New York’s fashion industry with the likes of Scott Barrie, Bill Blass, Oscar De La Renta, Gloria Vanderbilt, Adrienne Vittadini, Cynthia Rowley, Peter Max, The Limited Corporation, Timberland, and Ralph Lauren.
Next, she turned her gift for color, design and trend-shaping to the world of interior design, luxury home furnishings, personal accessories, scents and gifts. Patti has created, sourced and designed innovative private label products for brands such as Bloomingdales, Sferra, Neiman Marcus, Crate & Barrel, The Phillips Collection, ABC Carpet and Home, Yankee Candle, Donna Karan Urban Zen and Ralph Lauren.
Patti has traveled and worked in 58 countries, speaking, writing and consulting on colors, trends and design for brands and institutions all around the world. She teaches as guest lecturer for the Fashion Institute of Technology, the Parson School of Design and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
She is an active board member of SERRV International, one of the founding organizations of the World Fair Trade Organization; BADG (Black Artists and Designer Guild); The High School of Fashion Industries and The Bienenstock Furniture Library.
Through her extensive work with Aid for Artisans, she has worked with the International Executive Service Corps and was awarded the US Presidents Volunteer Service Award in 2005. She received both the Gift For Life Industry Achievement Award and the Withit Industry Leadership Award last year for the Kaleidoscope Project, a project that amplifies the interior design work of Black, Indigenous and People of Color, which she co-founded.
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Patti is Principal of carpenter + company. She’s an award-winning fashion and interior design trend forecaster, lifestyle and culture futurist, and micro-enterprise specialist.
Her career has spanned the gamut from concept and product development to global sourcing and supply chain development; from merchandising to scaling markets globally; from color analysis and trend forecasting for the most influential taste-makers in the industry, like Pantone and Maison & Object in Paris, where she serves as Global Ambassador, to advising the US President on small business growth and economic development.
Graduating from the Fashion Institute of Technology, Patti worked at the epicenter of New York’s fashion industry with the likes of Scott Barrie, Bill Blass, Oscar De La Renta, Gloria Vanderbilt, Adrienne Vittadini, Cynthia Rowley, Peter Max, The Limited Corporation, Timberland, and Ralph Lauren.
Next, she turned her gift for color, design and trend-shaping to the world of interior design, luxury home furnishings, personal accessories, scents and gifts. Patti has created, sourced and designed innovative private label products for brands such as Bloomingdales, Sferra, Neiman Marcus, Crate & Barrel, The Phillips Collection, ABC Carpet and Home, Yankee Candle, Donna Karan Urban Zen and Ralph Lauren.
Patti has traveled and worked in 58 countries, speaking, writing and consulting on colors, trends and design for brands and institutions all around the world. She teaches as guest lecturer for the Fashion Institute of Technology, the Parson School of Design and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
She is an active board member of SERRV International, one of the founding organizations of the World Fair Trade Organization; BADG (Black Artists and Designer Guild); The High School of Fashion Industries and The Bienenstock Furniture Library.
Through her extensive work with Aid for Artisans, she has worked with the International Executive Service Corps and was awarded the US Presidents Volunteer Service Award in 2005. She received both the Gift For Life Industry Achievement Award and the Withit Industry Leadership Award last year for the Kaleidoscope Project, a project that amplifies the interior design work of Black, Indigenous and People of Color, which she co-founded.
