Terese Brown

Terese's journey began in Lucea, Jamaica. She grew up learning to design at her grandmother's side, and immigrated to the Bronx at age seven. She built careers in finance, buying, and merchandising working with houses like Jimmy Choo and Marc Jacobs. Terese has spent two decades as a fashion designer launching women's, children's, sleepwear, intimates, and licensed apparel collections for major retailers, leading design and product development from concept through production while delivering commercially successful collections.

In those corporate spaces, she watched herself and her peers struggle to find attire that was both office-appropriate and a true reflection of their personality and style. She made a promise: if she ever created her own brand, it would solve this very problem.

Terese Sydonna provides bold, sustainable, and versatile fashion that empowers high-achieving women to transition seamlessly from the boardroom to celebration. The brand is known for original, limited-edition prints, printed with water-based, non-toxic inks, and thoughtfully tailored pieces proudly made in New York City's Garment District by a team of immigrants, mostly women.

Terese is scaling deliberately: growing wholesale and retail partnerships beyond Macy's and Wolf & Badger, completing New York City and State certifications to pursue government contracts, and building an education and apprenticeship arm to pass on patternmaking, a craft she believes is worth preserving. Her largest collection yet, thirty pieces, was completed this summer.