Zac posen biography

American fashion designer (born 1980)

Zachary E. Posen (; born October 24, 1980) is an American fashion designer.

Early life

Zachary E. Posen was born and raised in a Jewish family^[2] in New York City, residing in the SoHo neighborhood of lower Manhattan.

He is the son of Susan (née Orzack), a corporate lawyer, and Stephen Arnold Posen, an artist.^[3][4] He has family roots in Shklow, Belarus, and Żychlin, Poland.^[5] His interest in fashion design started early, and as a child he would steal yarmulkes from his grandparents' synagogue to make ball dresses for dolls.^[6]

He attended Saint Ann's School, a private school in Brooklyn and in his sophomore year interned with fashion designer Nicole Miller.^[7] As a teen, he also won a Scholastic Art and Writing Award.^[8] At age 16 he enrolled in the pre-college program at Parsons The New School for Design.^[9] He graduated from Saint Ann's in Zac Posen — Designer, Bio, News | The Fashionography SARI