Lane Tabb - Luxury Fashion, Sustainability and Innovation Specialist

<p>Lane Tabb is focused on merging new technologies with localized artisan craftsmanship.</p> <p>Lane has worked as a creative director and head of product, with some of the most esteemed fashion leaders on the planet over the past 20 years including Donna Karan, Kate Spade, Rebecca Minkoff, Jill Stuart, Herve Leger, Max Azria and many others.</p> <p>In 2013 Lane was tapped to lead a fashion technology startup in San Francisco. For 5 years Lane focused on the intersection of fashion and technology, which introduced her to thinking outside of the traditional fashion industry box.</p> <p>In 2019 Tabb returned to her roots in the fashion industry launching the LLABB ALM startup focused on Sustainable advanced luxury manufacturing.</p> <p>LLABB ALM was selected to participate in the XRC labs Accelerator in 2019, and in 2020 Tabb was selected to participate in the UBS Project Entrepreneur Accelerator.</p> <p>In September, Lane and Team won a CFDA production grant for innovation in sustainable manufacturing. In 2024 Tabb will continue her consulting for luxury brands and will be launching a sustainable fashion incubator, and a sustainable lifestyle brand NOVAE RES.</p> <p>Lane is based in NYC, sharing her West Village home with her husband George, and their two dogs Lucky and Rocket.</p> <p>On this episode, Lane speaks with Melissa Burkheimer about how her time in Silicon Valley led her to re-evaluate her relationship to fashion sustainability and launch a startup doing on-demand manufacturing of artisan-made pieces.</p>