Creative Direction|Footwear Design|Print Design
Ariana Bohling is an NYC based Creative Director and Product Developer, specializing in Footwear and Knit Accessories. She has a passion for fashion, fine art, and interior design. She loves designing & developing pieces for real life women who are strong and successful, and who appreciate, quality, comfort, and exceptional fit in each piece they buy.
About Ariana
Ariana Bohling is a fashion designer who has worked in the industry for 20 years. She specializes in footwear design. In addition to footwear she includes cold weather accessory design, hats, gloves, scarves, (made from Peruvian Alpaca yarns)in her breadth of design experience.
Much of her design career was spent in New York City, while also spending several years living part time in Lima, Peru. While in Peru she spent time working on a collection of Alpaca products that were brought to market with much success. Ariana has experience partnering with shoe factories, tanneries, and artisans in Peru, Brazil, and China and has traveled to each country respectively to develop and produce original product.
In 2020 Ariana Bohling was one of fifteen brand participants in Design Entrepreneurs NYC program, An initiative by the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) and NYCEDC that equips select fashion designers with the skills they need to successfully run a fashion label, including marketing, operations, and financial management.
She is a graduate of Pratt Institute with a B.A. in Fashion Design.
Brand Building + Line Building
SELECT Clients
Tory Burch
G-iii Apparel Group
Nordstrom
Nordstrom x Nike
Free People
Anthropologie
Urban Outfitters
Eberjey
Love Shack Fancy
Clic
Cote a Coast
Hatch
Kismet Montecito
Guild LA
Opening Ceremony
Assembly NY
Steven Alan
Barbara Jean
Steve Madden
Betsey Johnson
Aldo
Dillards
Bebe
Suri Alpaca Slipper in Blush-Featured in Nordstrom x Nike Pop-In Shop
Nordstrom x Nike Pop-In Shop
Nordstrom and Nike collaborated on a pop in shop at Nordstrom Retail stores where the Ariana Bohling Suri Slipper in Blush was featured in Nordstrom USA and Canada
While building her namesake brand and designing each collection, Ariana had the opportunity to provide creative direction not only for the design process, but for web, social media, and print. She collaborated with other creatives: photographers, art directors, models, hair and makeup artists, and stylists to produce these images. She also coordinated and styled many of the photoshoots herself.
