Draft:Alise Trautmane-Uzuner

Alise Trautmane-Uzuner
Alise Trautmane-Uzuner (born October 13, 1980, in Riga, Latvia) is a Latvian designer, entrepreneur, educator, and the Founder and CEO of DOORS NYC.

Early Life and Education
Alise Trautmane-Uzuner was born in Riga, Latvia. She pursued her passion for fashion design and relocated to New York City in 2015. Trautmane-Uzuner honed her skills at Parsons The New School for Design, graduating in 2017.

Fashion Design
Trautmane-Uzuner gained recognition in the fashion industry with her womenswear fashion brand, NARCISS. She was awarded "Designer of the Year" by the Baltic Fashion Federation on three occasions.

Entrepreneurship
In her entrepreneurial journey, Trautmane-Uzuner co-founded and managed DREEMS (Dreams on Air), a self-funded membership-based fashion platform. Following this, she founded DOORS NYC, a membership-based omnichannel platform offering serviced retail, PR, and e-commerce for independent fashion and accessories designers to grow their brands in the United States. The DOORS NYC concept store and PR showroom are located in New York's SoHo district.

In addition to the flagship store and PR showroom in SoHo, DOORS NYC has executed experiential fashion, art, and beauty pop-ups at other venues in NYC and West Hollywood, Los Angeles.

Teaching
Alongside her role at DOORS NYC, Trautmane-Uzuner teaches Fashion Public Relations at Parsons The New School for Design. She is also a visiting professor at Iéseg School of Management, teaching at the Fashion Business Summer Program in Paris, France.

Other Roles
Trautmane-Uzuner serves as the Regional Co-Director in New York for the Latvian American Chamber of Commerce.

Awards and Recognition
Trautmane-Uzuner has received the "Designer of the Year" award from the Baltic Fashion Federation three times for her work with NARCISS.