Designer's Biography 

Pamela Ptak combines the visionary discipline of fine art, technical intricacy of craftsmanship and a reverence of spirit in her design work. Her designs are a study in balanced proportions and exciting color harmonies. Understanding the subtle needs and wishes of an individual, she crafts garments addressing each client’s personal experience of dress. She can help a woman enter an event and immediately ‘own the room’, or quietly and gracefully emerge into a gathering.

 

Each season, she investigates themes that inspire her, from her signature ‘origami’ gowns which architecturally describe the air space around the female form, to her ‘goddess columns’ and her most body conscious creations – the bias gowns.

 

After graduating from Pratt Institute in 1985, Pamela worked as an art director for several of the world’s top ten advertising agencies before adding 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 2000 she established her own couture line designing made-to-order clothing for her private clientele. From 2003-2006 she freelanced seasonally on the Paris Haute Couture and Ready-To-Wear collections for the NYC design house Chado Ralph Rucci, the only American designer to show at the Paris Haute Couture in 80 years. From 2003-2005 she also shared her knowledge of the Haute Couture with fashion students at Drexel University by teaching the couture graduate classes in corseted eveningwear.

While she continues to freelance seasonally as a patternmaker for NYC designers showing collections at NYC Fashion Week, her current concentration is on her Ptak Couture collections and custom design work for clients from Bucks County and Philly to NYC, DC and Dallas.

 

Recently, her fashion drawings have been included in exhibitions & exhibit catalogs at Le Musee des Arts Asiatiques in Nice, France, the Puck Gallery in NYC and on the ABC-TV program “Extreme Makeover Home Edition”. Her design studio was featured on WLVT-TV’s PBS program “Tempo” and she is profiled in the 2006 Fall Couture Fashion issue of Bucks magazine.