Instructor Spotlight: Claudine DeSola

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Claudine DeSola

  • Experiential Marketer
  • Sustainable Designer

Claudine DeSola is considered a “sustainable experiential marketer”. Her goal now is to get brands to think before they send out large packages filled with uncurated products for reviews, or the same pricey press kit to fifty different people…. We can’t be perfect but lets figure out a way to have less waste. That is where Caravan Stylist Studio comes in…

Claudine DeSola is the founder of Caravan Stylist Studio and the blog Caravangirl, celebrity stylist, fashion show producer, designer, experiential marketer and crusader for more sustainable practices. Caravan Stylist Studio an experiential space in NYC for influencers, editors and celebrity talent. Prior to the studio, Caravan was the first ever retail store on wheels in a RV and gained press attention around the world. She had two pop up stores as well and worked with emerging designers to selling some of the first bags by FEED.

Claudine was coined by the New York Times to have an eye for independent designers and also was featured on Good Morning America, Elle, Entrepreneur, Forbes, Inc, WSJ and more. Celebrities from Penelope Cruz, Olivia Munn, Olivia Wilde, Eva Mendes, Selena Gomez would come to visit the stores. She also has produced over 100 fashion shows and events from a fashion show for the NFL, Hasbro, to the first ever show for the Kardashians with their DASH store, Victoria Beckham’s first venture in fashion, Serena Williams x HSN fashion shows, Ashley Graham x Addition Elle, and most recently Eva Longoria. She recently appeared on Entrepreneur as an influencer marketer to watch with working with over 300 influencers directly in one year. She is one of the founders of LIVARI, a sustainable zero waste clothing collection with actress Alysia Reiner & Tabitha St. Bernard Jacobs. She works often styling tv stars from top shows such as Orange is the New Black, The Americans, Younger, Homeland, Jane the Virgin, and more.

Her work recently has been featured in WWD, Radar, Good Day NY, Forbes, NY POST, InStyle, Refinery 29. Most recently she has been travelling to universities around the country such as Cornell to talk about sustainable practices & has taught a graduate studies class at FIT about CSR & an eco PCL. She will be one of the hosts of a soon to be launched podcast about brands that are thinking out of the box when it comes to CSR and making our world a better community. She also just had a little baby, Tatum Michael, who she is constantly on the search to use only eco – organic – mindful products from diapers to toys for him. In her spare time, she enjoys travelling, hiking with her husband, Scott and her two dogs and now Tatum will be part of that mix, gardening and checking out new restaurants and art exhibitions.

http://www.caravanstyliststudio.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/claudinedesola/

https://instagram.com/caravannyc/