FF By Ty Company of the Week: Style Room by Karen Parker O’Brien

Karen Parker O’Brien has been a fashion professional her whole life. From launching two jewelry companies in high school to managing a couture retail store on Madison Avenue to owning her own wholesale multi-line fashion rep showroom, she lives and breathes fashion. When she was president of her wholesale rep company, Karen introduced hundreds of stores to up-and-coming designers from around the globe. She launched numerous brands into companies like Barneys New York and Henri Bendel.

She has coordinated over 150 fashion trade shows, and visited international style cities like Barcelona and Tel Aviv for fashion shows and design meetings. She has also graced the front row at New York Fashion Week.

Karen loves bringing people into her “inner fashion circle” so they can share the excitement of this amazing industry. Style Room offers a variety of tours perfect for all kinds of special days and events, with behind-the-scenes access to exclusive showrooms. We can accommodate groups large and small. Even VIP personal shopping tours perfect for couples and for visiting high-end designer showrooms. Choose one below to read more:

Girls Day Out
For the Bride & Friends
VIP / Luxury
Celebrations
Corporate Incentives / Spouse Tours
"Just Visiting"
Guys Day Out
Mother / Daughter
Kidswear / Baby
Alumni Girls Day Out
Gift Certificates

A Style Room shopping tour is a 3-hour, "insider shopping experience" into NYC's exclusive fashion showrooms.

On this behind-the-scenes tour, you will be personally escorted into a private world open only to clothing and accessories store buyers, owners, magazine editors and stylists. Showrooms and studios are where boutique and major store owners and buyers come to see the designer's new collections months before they are produced for stores. They are where magazine editors shop when they're looking for clothing and accessories to feature on models for their upcoming stories. They are where fashion stylists come to shop for their celebrity clients.

On a Style Room personal shopping tour you will be brought into 4-5 different designer showrooms and studios where you can purchase current season clothing, handbags, jewelry and accessories (stock and samples) directly off the racks and shelves at wholesale and below (65%-80% off retail).

You will meet designers along your tour and see new collections being brought to life for next season. It will make everything you buy that much more special! The majority of the designers on our tours sell to Henri Bendel, Saks Fifth Avenue, Nordstrom and high-end boutiques across the country and globe.

http://www.styleroom.com/