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= Emily Rinehardt = Emily Rinehardt was born in Columbus, Ohio and graduated of class of 2018 from Kent State University. Her along with her classmate Megan Rogerson came up with the up-cycling clothing brand Salvage Apparel Co. They both made a clothing company that focuses on up-cycling thrift or used clothing and making it into new fashion pieces to be worn.

Social Media and Content

 * Website (Emily Rinehardt): https://www.emilyrinehardt.com
 * Website (Salvage Apparel Co.): https://www.salvageapparelco.com/
 * Instagram: https://instagram.com/salvageapparelco?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Early Life and Education
Emily Rinehardt had a love of fashion growing up. She studied at Kent State University and along with the guidance of her professors she had a knack for design work with different types of fashion figurines in her designs. She at first felt scared and intimidated to begin to make her drawings, but with the feedback from her classmates she developed a style of her own. This allowed her to not only advance her own techniques but even got as far as teaching her own sketch classes to the students. She had good ideoliogies when it came to her teaching methods and encouraged her students to achieve their best by finding their own styles and techniques and not be scared to new things. She has always had a passion for sustainable clothing but practiced her first love which is fashion illustration. She believed that it is very important to always start with the design process because its the best way to show and communicate the thought process as well as show the creativity to the client and make the vision and picture come alive for the client. She practiced and mastered her skills and was able to graduate Kent State University in 2018.

MALVAR=STEWART
During her school years she worked for MALVAR=STEWART in 2017 as a design intern. In her time there she was able to practice using sustainable methods to develope clothes. Through experimentation she was able to come up with different swatch samples and developed her skills in dying, felting and different methods of weaving and sewing.

La Senza
After graduation Emily Rinehardt went on to work for La Senza, an intimate and lingerie wear line from Canada where she worked as an associate designer and conceptual lead, she worked with the brand from 2018-2020. Her developement as an intern at first and then on going to an assistant designer showed in the work she produced. Her work had dramactically improved since gradtuation and the tasks she had done there included doing research for new fashion trends, managing accesories from design to then supplying vendors. With her skecthes she produced more work for the brand and worked with raw and other materials, she got fully familiar with them to then eventually branch out and co-find her own brand.

Salvage Apparel Co.
After working there she along with her classmate Megan Rogerson co-founded the clothing brand Salvage Apparel Co. in 2020. There she helped manage the developement of the brand from the designs and social media. Her developement she had along with her previous jobs and school expierence really helped her fully enagage in her brand and the popularity of the brand grew during the pandemic. With the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 consumers wanted to engage in more sustainable fashion due to the ongoing war between the environment, and over usage of clothes being dumped into landfills and polluting the earth. Her and with Megan Rogerson both developed a sustainable clothing brand that helped not only with the pollution of old garments and clothes but also helped others be able to participate in fashion as well. With their business model they were able to grow as a leading brand for their achievements in doing great for Earth’s greater good and allowing the price model of their clothing not affect the wallets of eager consumers wanting to change their habits. Due to the ongoing war with fast fashion and the damage to the environment, it was a refrshing take on what could be next in fashion decades to come with upcycling thrift and old clothing and making it like new again.

Achievements

 * Rock The Runway Winner 2018


 * Rock the Runway Audience Choice Winner 2017
 * Trustee’s Academic Scholarship
 * Honor’s Academic Scholarship
 * The Kent State, Rock the Runway brings Disney to Kent publication
 * Columbus Editorial Society, Philomena &Fiore by Emily Rinehardt, May 2018 publication
 * Became Design intern at MALVAR=STEWART (2017)
 * Became Design Intern at La Senza (2018)
 * Got promoted to Assistant Designer for La Senza (2018-2020)
 * Started Salvage Apparel Co as a co founder (May 2020)

Activities & Societies:
Honors student graduating with a BA in Fashion Design at The Fashion School at Kent State University.

Overseas Studies Program:
Spent a semester in Florence, Italy to further studies in global fashion.