Meet KRISTEN.

A longtime fashion lover, Kris is known to search the ends of the earth for her dream items. Even putting other people to task with helping her hunt for them. She’s that great at rallying people and building a team. After graduating from USC with a business degree, she worked in San Francisco as a fashion buyer for two years. Her gut feelings are her strength, and she’s right 99.999% of the time about fashion, food and lifestyle trends. So on a whim, without a job, she moved and joined Karen in NYC.
A former Senior Director of Merchandising at Ralph Lauren, she followed her entrepreneurial spirit and worked at a startup to launch a luxury fashion brand. She is now in charge of helping to organize all things chic related to the Illustrienne online store operations. Kristen is based in NYC with her husband, their two boys, and baby girl. 

MEET Linda.

You can find Kristen looking impeccably chic and browsing the windows of Chanel on Madison Avenue or making to-do lists at her favorite French cafe.

Linda Fujita, also known as Linz, Fuj, Yuyu, and her personal favorite noun, Auntie, is Chief Thoughtful Presenter. A former Senior Director of women's design at Ralph Lauren, she was one of the sweetest bosses Karen ever had. Linda would buy her thoughtful gifts to cheer her up for all the long hours they’d worked to meet their deadlines. She bonded with Karen and Kristen at Ralph Lauren, but it was outside of the 650 Madison Avenue headquarters where their friendships took flight. A copious note-taker and organizer, you can always find Linda with a pen and notebook in hand, jotting down ideas, wish lists, or to-do lists. She lives in NYC with her husband and son but soon you'll find them migrating east - "Water Mill here we come!"

You can find Linda obsessing over the latest sneaker drops, fashion trends (bags! shoes! clothes!), rap lyrics (roddy rich!), anything really!

Kristen Koh, Chief Chic Organizer

Linda Fujita, Chief Thoughtful Presenter