Zac Posen (24 October 1980) is an American fashion designer, born in Brooklyn, New York.
At sixteen, enrolled in the pre-college program at Parsons The New School for Design, and interned under curator Richard Martin at the Metropolitan Museum’s Costume Institute. At eighteen, he was accepted into the womenswear degree program at London’s Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. He was part of Gen Art’s 2001 Fresh Faces and started his business that same year.
After being backed by Sean Combs in 2004, he presented his first major runway show and was awarded the CFDA Swarovski-Perry Ellis Award for Ready-to-Wear. Bergdorf Goodman, Saks Fifth Avenue and Bloomingdale’s carry his RTW line. He also designs limited-edition jeans for 7 For All Mankind available at Neiman Marcus. In 2008, Posen collaborated with Target and created a successful capsule collection, Zac Posen for Target.
