Watch: Designer Joseph Altuzarra '05 Launches New Line with Target
Good Morning America: High Fashion Designer Brings Discount Line to Target
Appearing this week on Good Morning America, Joseph Altuzarra '05 discusses his new collaboration with Target. Glamour Editor Cindi Leive '88 also appears in the segment to describe pieces from the line. Altuzarra is already being compared to designers Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein. "It feels very surreal," he says. "It's a 'pinch me' moment."
Altuzarra's new line and collaboration has been featured in The New York Times, Vogue, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, The Independent (U.K.), The Guardian (U.K.), New York Magazine, Glamour, and Fashion Times, among others.
Altuzarra for Target hits stores Sun., Sept. 14.
Born and raised in Paris, Altuzarra majored in art and art history and was a member of the track team at Swarthmore, graduating in 2005. Read his profile in The Bulletin, which appeared on the heels of his winning the 2011 Council of Fashion Designers/Vogue Fashion Fund award.
Leive earned a B.A. in English literature with a minor in religion from Swarthmore. Watch Leive's 2010 McCabe Lecture: Would Walter Cronkite Have Tweeted? Old Media, New Media, and What You Should Know About Everything You Read.