Emily Konatella

About

Founder at Yoper.com. Emily is a a fashion consultant, designer and creative director with more than 15 years experience. She is originally Italian and speaks both English and Italian.

Experience

Starting out as a customer service representative with a local jewelry store in Italy - Emily quickly learned the ins and outs of running a jewelry business. She then decided to move to New York to pursue her passion in fashion and became a fashion writer for 4 years. Covering topics from the latest fashion shows to trending dresses, shoes and designer wear. She also took a part time job as a fashion sales associate and later became a fashion assistant to multiple fashion designers. She has worked with fashion designers from around the world and even arranged and assisted with organizing Paris Fashion week of 2012. She then decided to start designing fashion lines and continued to write about her journey. She is now the owner of Yoper.com and is the Chief Fashion Writer overseeing the entire operation.

Education

Emily studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology and has a Bachelors of Science. Her skills include: fashion sketching, fashion writing and fashion design implementation from paper to real world application.