Rebeccah Pailes-Friedman

Rebeccah Pailes-Friedman is the Founder and Principal of Interwoven Design Group, where she combines her expertise in wearable technology with a passion for design.

She is the author of Smart Textiles for Designers: Inventing the Future of Fabrics, released in 2016 by Laurence King Publishers, London. Rebeccah’s unique vision has been realized internationally; her clients range from start-ups to NASA.

She has over 25 years of experience designing products for active sportswear, and has held positions as design director for Fila, Champion and Nike.

She is founding director of the Intelligent Materials Applied Research & Innovation Lab (IMARI) at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY and a former research fellow at the T-Lab for Wearable Technology at the Brooklyn Fashion + Design Accelerator.