The touchstone for Pamela Ptak as a brand is to establish with perfect clarity that this is new. This is about stripping away the unnecessary and supporting an attempt by the modern woman to live in harmony with the energy of others around her while still maintaining a uniqueness, a distinctiveness. Pamela Ptak's mark is not made by volume, garishness or opulence but by a marriage of her personal philosophy and the aesthetic it births with her clients identical view on how a fulfilling and powerful life is constructed and then lived. Pamela Ptak's designs reflect our unwavering belief that cloaking oneself in good deeds is the greatest fashion statement of all. We are defined by our desire to empower our clients, we give them the energy that is generated from being beautiful and knowing you are so. We dress the woman of action and quiet confidence. We provide her with high quality creations that speak of her deep desire to be a force in her lifetime and more importantly the certainty that she can and will be so.

 

After graduating from Pratt Institute, Pamela Ptak worked as an art director for several of the world’s top ten advertising agencies. Still striving to fully express her creativity she added 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. Ever the teacher she also added duties teaching the couture graduate classes in corseted evening wear at Drexel University  in Philadelphia. For more 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