- Laura Dahl
Infobox Fashion Designer
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name=Laura Dahl
nationality=American
birth_date=November 12, 1974
birth_place=Las Vegas, NV
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label_name=Laura Dahl & Wifebeader
significant_design= Embellished Tops
awards=|Education
Laura Dahl (born 1974) is an American
fashion designer . A native of Las Vegas, NV, she attended theUniversity of Arizona inTucson , AZ and continued her studies at theFashion Institute of Technology inNew York City .Career
Before launching her own line of contemporary women's clothing, Dahl worked in the fashion houses of
Cynthia Rowley , [http://annebowen.com/ Anne Bowen] , andCatherine Malandrino [Hilary Hutton, "Laura Dahl Draws a Bead on Fashion", "Vegas Magazine", February 2005] .In 2003 Dahl launched her first line called Wifebeader by Laura Dahl which focused on embellished tops [Hitha Prabhakar, "Casual and Comfortable Couture", "Metro New York", 22 June 2004] . Soon after being featured on [http://www.dailycandy.com/everywhere/article/22018/Just+Bead+It;jsessionid=8D99BFB67EC6C802D7DD31CF9B04259E Daily Candy] [Crain's New York Business, Oct 2005] (fashion newsletter), Wifebeader was picked up by
Bloomingdales [April Y. Pennington, "Tank Girl", "Entrepreneur Magazine", March 2006] and later that seasonAnthropologie .[http://www.lauradahl.com Laura Dahl] [Xazmin Garza, [http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2006/Mar-16-Thu-2006/fashion/6244643.html "Manufacturing Design"] , "Las Vegas Review-Journal", 16 March 2006] was launched in Fall 2006. It is currently being sold in
Nordstrom Fact|date=March 2008.That same year theShowtime Networks,The L Word , selected Laura Dahl as one of their featured designers for the [http://www.sho.com/site/lword/elementsofstyle.do "L'ements of Style"] collection [Sharon Edelson, "TV's 'L Word' Leads to New Fashion Collection", "Women's Wear Daily", 15 December 2006] .Her brother,
Matthew Gray Gubler , is an actor/director and is currently a cast member on theCBS crime drama,Criminal Minds [Alessandro Stanley, [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/20/arts/television/20watc.html?_r=1&ref=arts&oref=slogin "The Surefire TV Formula: Ape the Boss" "New York Times"] , 20 December 2006] .References
External links
* [http://www.lauradahl.com Official website]
* [http://www.forbes.com/home/2006/11/30/style-fashion-holiday-forbeslife-cx_hp_1201holidaydressing.html "Atypical Holiday Dressing"]Forbes
* [http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/2006/03/02/consumer.html Las Vegas Weekly]
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