As a cutting-edge fashion designer featured in leading magazines and newspapers including Vogue, Bazaar, W, Sports Illustrated, Cosmopolitan, New York Times, the Miami Herald, the La Times, just to mention a few, segueing into photography was a natural progression. From classic photography, as in her book CUBA: The Special Period, to fine art photography incorporating acrylic paint, manipulation, digitization, and other art forms. Her genres range from abstract, impressionist,  expressionist, contemporary, to conceptual, and vary in subject matter from urban, landscapes, pop art, cityscapes, to abstracts, scenes and settings, and beyond.

            Born and raised in Madison, Wisconsin,  she returned to her hometown from Ohio State University to receive a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Wisconsin as a Russian language major. Shortly thereafter, while living in San Francisco, she first began testing the waters as an artist, creating and selling her work as a hobby while traveling around the world as an international airline stewardess. With her thirst to experience life in a culture foreign to her own, she moved abroad for a few years, first to Tel Aviv, then London, before returning to the States and settling in Los Angeles. In Los Angeles she attended Art Center College of Design, and during her career as a fashion designer, taught design at Parsons School of Design. Also during that period, she was asked to design under the Givenchy label.