Speaker Bios...

Radley Cramer, Director of Marist College Fashion Program

Radley Cramer became Director of the Marist College Fashion Program in early 2006, following a successful career in the fashion, home furnishing and cosmetics industries.. His experience encompasses avast range of industry-relevant positions ranging from creative product development, to providing marketing and advertising concepts to leading luxury brands and retailers in both the United States and Europe, to retail and e-business entrepreneurship. In addition to his administrative duties within the Marist Fashion Program, Professor Cramer serves as instructor for the Fashion Program's foundational Introduction to the Fashion Industry course, as director of various short term studies to Asia and Europe, and Producer of the annual Silver Needle Fashion Show and Awards. Professor Cramer also serves on the Board of Directors of the Arts of Fashion Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to the education and mentoring of international fashion design students.

Richard Kramer, Senior Professional Lecturer Fashion Art History

M.A., University of Denver, Denver, Co.
B.F.A., Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Il.

Richard joined the Marist faculty in 1999 after a long career in New York City as a writer/director/designer of special events for corporations and institutions in the areas of sales promotion, marketing and corporate identity. His clients included: Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Avon, CBS Records International, Charles of the Ritz, Cheeseborough-Ponds, Clairol, General Electric, Holland America Cruise Lines, IBM, L’Oreal, Mademoiselle Magazine, Nabisco, Proctor & Gamble, Revlon, Warner Communications and others. Richard has the distinction of being one of the earliest proponents to employ CAD (Computer Assisted Design) into lighting projections for multi-media events. Formerly at Hofstra University he taught costume and scenic design, has held seminars in opera direction and staging at Westminster Choir College and has been artistic director of two professional summer repertory theaters. At Marist he teaches fashion design, CAD for fashion students, costume history and is director of the Annual Silver Needle Fashion Show.