Pamela Ptak dresses modern women in intriguing garments designed to evoke a response. Her sophisticated line of dresses, skirts & knit wear tops describe the female form in lines, folds & textures which are at once sculptural and wildly flattering.  "I think of garments in terms of architecture…clothing as wearable sculpture. Not as a covering for nakedness…but as a statement of high-minded principles and thoughts. That it does in fact provide coverage is a matter of mere practicality."   For the intellectual woman with courage and wit, Pamela's marriage of the art & science of fashion creates a line which resonates in the heart & soul.        "Wear you life brilliantly." - Pamela Ptak TM

After graduating from Pratt Institute, Pamela Ptak worked as an art director for several of the world’s top ten advertising agencies. She did intensive studies in fashion design at the French founded Maison Sapho School of Dressmaking and Design and the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. In 2001 Pamela Ptak established her own couture line designing made-to-order clothing for her private clientele from Philly, New York, Dallas and all over the U.S.

From 2003-2006 Pamela Ptak freelanced seasonally on the Paris Haute Couture and Ready-To-Wear collections for the NYC design house Chado Ralph Rucci doing sewing & hand embellishing. In 2007 she did patternmaking for other NYC designers. Pamela Ptak shares her knowledge of  Haute Couture with fashion students through her Camp Couture TM workshops at the Baum School of Art & in cities across the US. She also teaches the couture graduate classes in corseted evening wear at Drexel University in Philadelphia. For information on her classes go to WWW.CAMPCOUTURE.NET Pamela Ptak is the author of "Fashion Portfolios 101: Presentation Techniques for Independent Designers & Dressmakers" (Glass Lane Press, 2003) which she created to assist dressmakers starting home based businesses. For more info. go to WWW.STRIVE2INSPIRE.COM

Pamela Ptak's fashion drawings have been included in exhibitions & exhibit catalogs at Le Musee des Arts Asiatiques in Nice, France, at the Puck Gallery in NYC and on the ABC-TV program “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition”. Pamela Ptak's fashions & design studio were featured on WLVT-TV’s PBS program “Tempo” and she was profiled in the Fall Couture Fashion issue of Bucks magazine. In July 2009, her recent fashion design work was featured in a gallery exhibit entitled "Line, Texture, Fold: The Art of Pamela Ptak" and a dozen of her pieces were included in the October 2009 "Second Skin" exhibit & fashion show at the New Hope Arts gallery, New Hope, PA.

Photo: Garrett Hothan