Gloria brandes biography
Gloria was born March 6, 1943, in Chicago to Charles and Wanda Hayna as the first of three children..
California Apparel News
BB Dakota, the young contemporary brand based in Orange County, Calif., is shaking up its business model.
The relatively young fashion-forward label is ending its licensing agreement with Irvine, Calif.–based manufacturer nZaniaInc., moving to its own offices not far away in Costa Mesa, Calif., and aligning itself with huge South Korean conglomerate Samsung to grow the company.
Gloria Brandes, the founder and design director of the company, will be taking over all design, merchandising and marketing responsibilities once handled by nZania, which shared its offices with the label.
NZania has held the BB Dakota licensing agreement since 2005, when the label was launched.
A Princeton graduate who also studied at Parsons, Brandes joined BB Dakota after a year spent working in design and merchandising at Diane von.
At the time, nZania also held licenses with Hurley, Reebok, Disney and Levi’s.
Ever since last year, Brandes has wanted to either sell the company or launch an initial public offering to fund growth.
In late 2007, she hired Roth Capital Partners, a Newport Beach, Calif