Episode #3: Ilse Metchek - President of the California Fashion Association

*Meet Ilse Metchek:*

From Fit Model, to President of a major fashion company, to buying that company, to starting The California Fashion Association, Ilse has literally done it all.

With over 5 decades of experience, Ilse and is considered by many, to know more about the fashion industry and consumer behavior than anyone else on the planet.

Ilse is currently the President of the California Fashion association (CFA), an organization she created in 1994,

Prior to the formation of the CFA, Mrs. Metchek was Executive Director of the California Market Center (then called the California Mart), and before that, she was President of White Stag Inc., a division of Warnaco Industries. As a manufacturer, Metchek was Owner and President of Ilse M. Inc., which she purchased from the Anjac Corporation in 1984. Her career at Anjac began as the company’s designer in 1967; and seventeen years later, she owned the company!

Ms. Metchek was appointed to the U.S. Department of Commerce Exporters’ Textile Advisory Committee (ETAC) in 1998, and still serves in that capacity. Her public service includes participation on the Executive Board of the California Fashion Foundation, the Advisory Council of UCLA Extension, Board member of the Los Angeles Economic Development Corporation and the Vernon Chamber of Commerce.

Ilse has been voted one of the 500 Most influential people in Los Angeles by Los Angeles Business Journal each of the last 4 years.

In 2016 she was awarded the Stanley Olafson Award for her contribution to World Trade by the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce.

Her list of accolades is almost endless and is only surpassed by her wisdom and willingness to share all that she's learned in both business and life.

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