Todd Snyder is an American

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based in New York City. He founded his

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fashion label in 2011, and has been called "the most influential menswear designer of his generation" by ''GQ''. The brand was acquired by

American Eagle Outfitters American Eagle Outfitters, Inc. is an American clothing and accessories retailer headquartered at SouthSide Works in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1977 by brothers Jerry and Mark Silverman as a subsidiary of Retail Ventures, Inc ...

in 2015, and reports over $100 million in annual sales revenue. Todd Snyder is also the Creative Director of American heritage brand Woolrich's Black Label Collection.

Early life and education

Todd Snyder was born in

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, on November 29, 1967. He was raised in

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. He graduated from Ballard High School, where he played football and basketball. (Ames, Iowa had a population of 66,427 in 2020, and the 27,854 students of

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accounted for about half of the city's population.) His father was a

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who "wore a suit and tie every day", and Snyder worked at their civil engineering firm as a

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and

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. He initially studied finance at Iowa State University before changing his major to apparel merchandising and design.

Career

In the 1990s, Snyder was a

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's assistant at Badowers, a

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menswear shop founded in 1950. Snyder moved to New York to design outerwear for

Polo Ralph Lauren Ralph Lauren Corporation is an American public company, publicly traded fashion and lifestyle brand founded in 1967 by Ralph Lauren in New York City. The company markets products in apparel, home, accessories, and fragrances, and is most known ...

before becoming the director of menswear for the

Gap Inc. The Gap, Inc., commonly known as Gap Inc., is an American multinational clothing and accessories retailer. Gap was founded in 1969 by Donald Fisher and Doris F. Fisher and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company operates fou ...

Snyder later became SVP of menswear at J. Crew, where he designed The Ludlow Suit, The Broken-in-Chino and The Secret Wash Shirt and created collaborations with heritage brands, including Timex,

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, Thomas Mason, and Alden. Snyder founded his namesake label in 2011 in

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, influenced by

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tailoring, vintage military clothing and American workwear. The brand launched its first menswear collection in the Fall of 2011 at

Bergdorf Goodman Bergdorf Goodman Inc. is an American luxury department store based in New York City, founded in 1899 by Herman Bergdorf. , it operates a women's store and a men's store across the street from each other on Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. ...

, Ron Herman, and

Neiman Marcus Neiman Marcus is an American department store chain founded in 1907 in Dallas, Texas by Herbert Marcus, his sister Carrie Marcus Neiman, and her husband Abraham Lincoln Neiman. It has been owned by Saks Global, a Corporate spin-off, spin-o ...

. In 2012, the fashion label was picked up by

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and select

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stores. Not long after, GQ named him “The Man Who Taught Men To Love Clothes” and dubbed his New York flagship “The Menswear Temple We’ve Been Waiting For.” He has been a winner of GQ's Best Menswear Designers in America, recognized four times by the Council of Fashion Designers of America as a Menswear Designer of the Year nominee and is a 2013 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund finalist. In November 2015, American Eagle purchased the Todd Snyder clothing brand and Snyder's Tailgate brand of vintage-inspired collegiate sportswear for $11 million. In 2023, Todd was announced as the new Creative Director for Woolrich, for whom he is designing a new upscale Black Label Collection that will debut in the fall of 2024. In January 2024, Todd Snyder returned to the runway with his FW24 Collection "The Modernist" in Firenze, Italy at Pitti Uomo, the world's largest menswear trade show. Showing on the international stage to great praise, Todd Snyder was described by the New York Times as “the righteous inheritor of Ralph Lauren's mantle” and “arguably the most important American designer in Europe this season” by GQ.

Retail locations

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in Buckhead Village *

Boston Boston is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. The city serves as the cultural and Financial centre, financial center of New England, a region of the Northeas ...

in the

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Lincoln Park Lincoln Park is a park along Lake Michigan on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois. Named after US president Abraham Lincoln, it is the city's largest public park and stretches for from Grand Avenue (500 N), on the south, to near Ardmore Avenu ...

on Armitage Avenue *

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** The Grove **

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Americana Manhasset Americana Manhasset (also known as Americana Mall, Americana Center, or simply as The Americana) is an upscale, open-air shopping mall located in the Strathmore, New York, Strathmore area of Manhasset, New York, Manhasset, in Nassau County, New Y ...

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Bal Harbour Shops Bal Harbour Shops is an open-air shopping mall in Bal Harbour, Florida, an affluent suburb of Miami Beach. With Neiman Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue as anchors, the mall had sales of $3,000 per square foot in 2015, ranked among the highest-grossi ...

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at 26th Street, across from

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**Marin Country Mart in

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* San Jose at Santana Row *

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in Georgetown

Collaborations

Snyder helped pioneer the modern collaboration at J.Crew back in 2007, when he partnered with

on an olive green version of their work

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. Four years later, when Todd started his eponymous label, he doubled down on that idea and since then has launch several collaborations with American labels each year. Todd Snyder was the first designer to do a collaboration with L. L. Bean. In 2013 Todd Snyder launched a partnership with heritage sportswear brand

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, which was established in 1919. In July 2019, Snyder created a Moby's x Todd Snyder

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in collaboration with

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restaurateur Lincoln Pilcher. Todd Snyder commemorated the 10th anniversary of the brand by partnering with

Vans Vans (originally called the Van Doren Rubber Company) is an American apparel, accessories, and skateboarding shoes brand, established in Anaheim, California, and owned by VF Corporation. The company also sponsors surf, snowboarding, BMX, and ...

on sneakers in the Vans Slip-On 98 DX and the Lace-Up 73 DX models redesigned with cork insoles and premium suede. Todd Snyder and

New Balance New Balance Athletics, Inc. (NB), doing business as New Balance, is one of the world's major sports footwear and apparel manufacturers. Based in Boston, Massachusetts, the multinational corporation was founded in 1906 as the New Balance Arch Su ...

have a long-running collaboration, including a limited-edition version of the New Balance 237. In 2023 Todd Snyder partnered with Michael Graham, founder of Brooklyn-based Savant Studios, on a capsule collection called Artifacts. D.S. & Durga collaborated with Todd Snyder on a fragrance named Young Dunes, and its products are sold in Todd Snyder boutiques. In November 2023 Woolrich appointed Todd Snyder as the Creative Director of its new Black Label premium collection. The brand vends

, Moscot eyewear and Scosha bracelets.

Awards and honors

*2012 CFDA/Swarovksi Award for Emerging Talent in Menswear (nominee) *2012 '' GQ'' Best New Menswear Designers in America *2013 CFDA/''

Vogue Vogue may refer to: Business * ''Vogue'' (magazine), a US fashion magazine ** British ''Vogue'', a British fashion magazine ** '' Vogue Adria'', a fashion magazine for former Yugoslav countries ** ''Vogue Arabia'', an Arab fashion magazine ** ' ...

'' Fashion Fund finalist *2014 CFDA/Swarovksi Award for Menswear (nominee) *2016 CFDA Menswear Designer of The Year (nominee) *2017 CFDA Menswear Designer of The Year (nominee) *2020 CFDA Menswear Designer of The Year (nominee) *2024

Fast Company ''Fast Company'' is an American business magazine published monthly in print and online, focusing on technology, business, and design. It releases six print issues annually. History ''Fast Company'' was founded in November 1995 by Alan Webb ...

’s Most Innovative Companies *2024 CFDA American Menswear Designer of the Year (nominee)

Personal life

Snyder lives in New York City and has three daughters. He sits on the Board of Directors for

Goodwill Industries Goodwill Industries International Inc., or simply Goodwill, is an American business that provides job training, employment placement services and other community-based programs for people who face barriers in their employment. Goodwill Indust ...

and LIM College, where in 2022 he received the College's "Distinguished Achievement Award" as well as an honorary Doctor of Commercial Science degree in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the business of fashion.About Todd Snyder
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References

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