Conversation with Seph Skerritt, Founder, Proper Cloth

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Written By Joshua T Williams
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Seph Skerritt discusses the entrepreneurial and creative process of building a tech fashion company that provides custom men’s shirts. He shares advice on how to scale a new business by creating tools that automate and refine the user experience over time.

Seph is the founder and CEO of Proper Cloth. Seph founded Proper Cloth in 2008 and has grown the business to be the leading brand for mens custom shirts.  In his current role, Seph is closely involved in new technology development, product design, marketing and advertising.  Prior to Proper Cloth, Seph received an MBA from MIT Sloan and a Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at San Diego.  Seph currently lives in New York. 

Learn more: LinkedIn | Proper Cloth

Hosted by: Christopher Lacy, Assistant Professor, Parsons School of Design

Produced by: Joshua Williams, Assistant Professor, Parsons School of Design

Executive Producer: Fashion Consort

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Joshua T Williams

Joshua Williams is an award-winning creative director, writer and educator.  He has lectured and consulted worldwide, specializing in omni-channel retail and fashion branding, most recently at ISEM (Spain) and EAFIT (Colombia), and for brands such as Miguelina, JM, Andrew Marc and Anne Valerie Hash.  He is a full time professor and former fashion department chair at Berkeley College and teaches regularly at FIT, LIM and The New School.  He has developed curriculum and programming, including the fashion design program for Bergen Community College, that connects fashion business, design, media and technology.  His work has been seen in major fashion magazines and on the New York City stage. Joshua is a graduate of FIT’s Global Fashion Management (MPS) program, and has been the director and host of the Faces & Places in Fashion lecture series at FIT since 2010.

http://www.joshuatwilliams.com
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