Alex Greifeld

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Handbag Designer 101: The Stories Behind Handbag Designers, Brands, and Industry Icons · Know Your Customer or Lose Your Brand | Emily Blumenthal & Alex Greifeld · 30 Jun 2026 podcast

So the tuition's a lot lower than

Like a lot of like Parsons or or Pratt.

So yes, that that was like absolutely my dream.

I wanted to be a fashion designer.

I actually did get a job in fashion design.

My first summer internship was at Jones, New York.

And then they offered me a full-time job halfway through school.

Offered me.

So I switched to what was then called fashion merchandising.

Yep.

Betwe like between year two and three of my degrees so that I could complete some degree, like essentially nights and weekends, because you you couldn't do that.

Like you couldn't complete the fashion program like that.

So now.

Yeah, that was kind of like my my intro to the industry.

That's crazy.

Yeah, it was people were not sleeping.

I mean, I I need my sleep, so I wasn't one of the most intense people, but yeah, it's like an incredible amount of work.

And the reason I took the internship, I mean, I think like a lot of people, my goal initially was to work at like a designer price point.

And I wanted to get an internship that first year, like transparently, because I so I grew up in New Jersey commuting distance of the school, and I didn't want to have to go back and just like spend my summer in New Jersey working at a restaurant or something.

Right.

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