Contributors
Meet our Contributors: Designers, Taste Makers, Smarty Pant Know-It-Alls
Joya Mukerjee Logue
Joya Mukerjee Logue is the founder & designer of joyababy, an eco-friendly luxury brand for modern parenting. Design comes naturally to Joya and for years she has been creating, designing and entertaining for family and friends as a hobby. She is an artist at heart and is inspired by motherhood, fashion and travels to India. Joya resides in the windy city of Chicago with her husband and two sons.
Rosie Pope
Rosie Pope is a former dancer and model, and creator of the Rosie Pope brand catering to expecting women who want to wear elegant, high-fashion, tailored clothing throughout pregnancy. In 2008 Rosie Pope Maternity was born and in 2010 MomPrep, Rosie’s boutique studio for moms and moms-to-be was launched.
Jennifer Cooper
Jennifer Cooper is one of the founders and designers at Ellie Bellie Kids. She is also the editor of Classic Play. Her favorite past times include: dancing around her living room, watching the Pink Panther with her kids and daydreaming. Jennifer lives in Baltimore, MD with her husband and two children.
Tom Ward
Tom Ward has led a distinguished career as a brand manager and trend forecaster for some of the biggest, most successful American clothing companies. His latest venture is excellentjoe.com, a trend newsletter for men that will feature weekly installments of the newest, coolest clothes and accessories. Until the site’s launch – any day now, you can stay updated by joining the Excellent Joe Facebook fan page.
Rebecca Resnick
Rebecca Resnick, a well respected fashion and accessories editor for ten years at some of the world’s top fashion magazines, embarked on a new career path in 2006. Since then, she has developed a reputation as one of the top celebrity stylists and fashion consultants to high profile personalities, television actors, movie stars, and fashion 500 companies.
Amanda Schuon
Amanda Schuon began her PR career in Vietnam overseeing the opening of the Saigon Marriott Hotel. Following this tenure overseas, Amanda returned to Los Angeles where she continued her work in luxury PR. In 2002, Amanda founded the PR agency Truth Be Told in Los Angeles and New York, focusing on infant/toddler brands, jewelry designers, eco brands and alcohol beverage companies. She lives in LA with her husband and two young daughters.
Amy Williams
Amy Williams is a 42 year old Daughter, Wife and Mother. She has three amazing stepchildren and newborn twin girls. She and her husband created and co-founded Peek Aren’t You Curious, a store for children and parents to experience the joys of childhood and parenting. A 20 year veteran of the Retail Industry, she has held a variety of roles, and she is now a member of the Executive Team at Citizens of Humanity and Goldsign. Her passions include design, photography, cooking, travel and of course her fabulous husband, family and friends!
Jaime Morrison Curtis
Jaime Morrison Curtis is author of the blog and upcoming book Prudent Advice for My Baby Daughter. She lives in Los Angeles with her daughter Scarlet, skateboarder husband Carleton, and their old dog Puck. She loves crafting, cooking, throwing parties and always welcomes unsolicited advice.
Nickie Knight
Nickie Knight is the founder and publisher of HipMomsGoGreen.com. An online magazine, the site provides tips and articles on how to eat, dress, shop and live a greener lifestyle. Knight combined a nursing degree from The University of Virginia and an innate love of research to tremendous effect in her personal life by minimizing her children’s severe health issues through alterations to her family’s diet and environment. Those personal successes generated marked interest from eco-minded moms nationwide.
Amy Augustine
Amy Augustine was crazy about kids long before she encountered flora and henri. After spending the first part of her twenties touring with a theater company all over the world, Amy joined forces with flora and henri in 1997. With a background in theatre and costume design, she has always interested in design and fashion and how to make something out of nothing. Now head of product development at f&h, she has also started her own jewelry line ‘OR’ in 2008. Oh yeah, and she’s the mother of two hilarious boys, Otto, 6 and Rowan, almost 2.
Jennifer Vallez
Jennifer Vallez is the creator of Sophie & Lili, a little girls’ clothing & accessory company established in 2004. Jennifer is a full time Art Director at an Ad Agency in CT with a background in fashion/accessory illustration & design from FIT. Her handmade dolls & hair accessories are one-of-a-kind designs printed on high quality quilters cotton & personalized with a name or message of your choosing. Handmade with love. Handmade for hugs.
Stephanie Steinman
Stephanie Steinman a true California girl, fell in love with fashion right from the start. A self-professed “clothes-horse, she founded Milkshop.com 2006 – the premiere global destination for online children’s shopping. The site quickly became a favorite of celebrity moms & dads who couldn’t get enough of the sought-after brands they carried. Steinman’s latest venture will be that of consultant as she launches her own trend spotting firm in Los Angeles this summer.
Jennifer Feldman
Jenn Feldman is a Los Angeles-based interior designer and creative consultant. After being chosen by Nate Berkus as a winner of Oprah Winfrey’s first-ever interior design contest in 2007, Jenn appeared on the Oprah Winfrey show and her design work was published in O at Home Magazine. This “ah ha” life moment led Jenn to change course and launch her own design firm — Jenn Feldman Designs. She is also a creative consultant for several beauty and fashion brands on the West Coast and works philanthropically to raise money for children’s causes. Jenn resides in Los Angeles with her husband, two amazing sons and crazy golden-doodle Georgie.
Adina Belloli
Adina Belloli, is 30 and moved to London, England two years ago, having previously lived in Milan and New York City. She has found a way of combining charity and fashion through LittleLunalu.com, an online store which aims to make chic baby and toddler fashion accessible and affordable. She also opened The Lunalu Foundation which receives 5% of all Little Lunalu’s sales to provide support to charitable organizations across the world such as Global Action for Children.
Holly Brown + Hadley Peterson
Holly Brown + Hadley Peterson found shopping online for their children too hard and time-consuming. Setting out to create a better way to find products for their kids, they launched tada! Shop. Tada! brings together popular name brands with lesser know specialty brands and boutiques–all in one place. Throughout their respective careers at Martha Stewart and Style.com and as the moms of three girls and three boys, Hadley and Holly constantly curate and find the best essentials, the most original and the greatest deals.
Lizzie Scheck
A former Emmy nominated casting director, Lizzie Scheck channeled her creative talents to design jewelry. Lizzie began designing jewelry as a hobby, but her talent was quickly recognized and she soon turned it into a business, aptly named Lizzie Scheck Jewelry. Among many of Lizzie’s accolades as a jewelry designer, Lizzie’s already devoted following hit cult status when Sarah Jessica Parker donned her pave diamond horseshoe necklace on HBO’s Sex and the City. Lizzie designs to reflect and enhance the unique style of the wearer.
Zoe Schaeffer
Zoe Schaeffer is a New Yorker who moved to Los Angeles in 2004. She began her career in the style industry by assisting designer Anna Sui and then working as a beauty editor at Mademoiselle and Self. In LA, she became the fashion and beauty writer for Los Angeles Magazine, and wrote for Vitals and In Style. Most recently, she co-owned LA based boutique, Presse which was written up in Vogue, W, International Herald tribune, among others. After her second daughter was born, she launched the style blog for baby and home MacaroonOriginal.com and is currently a freelance writer for fashion, beauty and home.
Lisa Kanouse
After spending 18 years in the fashion industry, Lisa Kanouse launched her own contemporary collection of children’s apparel, Saurette, in Spring 2009. The line is inspired by women’s runway and contemporary design, and is best defined as petite versions of mom. Simply put, Fashionable clothing for kids with unique style.
