ABOUT THE OWNER

Patrick grew up in the Pacific Northwest and has loved the fashion sector ever since he was a kid. Patrick has been sewing, altering, and fixing his own clothing since a young age. He grew up through the 80s and 90s and began his lifelong retail journey in the late 90s working as a stock and sales associate. 

Patrick graduated from the University of Idaho in the early 2000’s focusing his studies in graphic design, marketing, and economics. After college, he started his professional career selling real estate, but, quickly realized he was not passionate about selling real estate, and transitioned into a marketing role for the company. During his time as the marketing coordinator, he produced all of the marketing for the offices and created a real estate marketing magazine for the area.

Soon after a couple seasons of publications, he decided to leave real estate and start his own advertising firm, focusing on traditional publishing, website design, graphic design, and digital video production. After two years of creating a successful advertising company, he was recruited to join the in-house advertising team at Coldwater Creek, located in Sandpoint, Idaho. Patrick worked across the visual team in graphics, production design, and web. Patrick and his wife decided to relocate to Lewiston, Idaho and he took a job in art direction and photography at a small food magazine publication.

He left shortly after and joined a regional PNW advertising company as a video producer and photographer. During his tenure, he created and produced many regional campaigns for local businesses and television broadcasting.

Patrick left two years later and he started his own photography studio and fashion consulting practice. He landed the brands Etcetera, Carlisle, and Per Se as clients and was part of the team that launched multiple e-commerce sites and was in-charge of the studio production, visual development, and e-commerce imagery. During this time he also photographed and ran tests for agencies Wilhelmina, SMG, TCM, Genetics, IMG, and Vision. Sally’s Beauty and Cosmo Prof also hired Patrick, as a consultant, to help direct the design, build-out, and DAM’s for their corporate visual studio.

Patrick was then recruited by Washington State University’s Apparel, Merchandising, Design, and Textiles department and was hired as a full-time instructor for five years to teach Merchandising. Patrick became a certified Capture One technician and worked as a contract agency photographer and art director during summer months.

He left WSU at the beginning of Covid-19 to start teaching at the University of Idaho. During his tenure at Idaho, he completed a M.S. in Apparel, Design, Textiles, with his research and studies focused on Sustainability and Circularity within the fashion supply chain.

In the end of 2021, he left the University and took on the full-time ownership and operations of The Killer Clothing Collective January 2022. The vision and plan for The Killer Clothing Collective is just in the infancy stage of brand development but continues to grow at a rapid pace YOY since his acquisition of the brand.

The previous owner and management is no longer involved at The Killer Clothing Collective.