Rachel Doriss, Pollack’s Design Director, has textile design in her DNA. “My first official textile pattern was splatter-painting curtains made from old sheets when I was in third grade,” she recalls. It was her grandmother, a weaver, who taught her many fiber arts from the time she was a toddler and they “made things together.” It would be later in the Textile Design department at the Rhode Island School of Design that she realized, for the first time, the practical application of her beloved woven and printed textile techniques. She graduated with a BFA from RISD in 1999, and designed printed silk scarves at Echo before joining the Pollack Studio in 2000. In 2007, Rachel was appointed Vice President, Associate Design Director. She took the helm as Pollack’s Design Director in 2011, overseeing the Studio and guiding the creative vision for each textile collection.