Pink Tartan's Kimberly Newport-Mimran

Growing up in the town of Niagara Falls as a girl admiring her grandmother’s pearls and shoes, Pink Tartan’s Kimberley Newport-Mimran has definitely moved up in the fashion world while staying close to the elegant style instilled within her from a young age. Mimran got involved with fashion at 14, working in retail and studying fashion merchandising and manufacturing management in college. She landed a position as a buyer for The Hudson’s Bay Company, moving on to merchandising and product development at Club Monaco where her mantra became “execution is key.”

Her next move to Caban would change both her career and personal life forever — CEO Joe Mimran, who is now the head of Joe Fresh, would become her husband and father to their daughter Jacqueline. Mimran then launched her own line, Pink Tartan, a collection that features sophisticated womenswear with menswear touches and a Parisian chic twist. The line is all about reinventing key pieces in a wardrobe like the little black dress and jersey silk wrap dress. Prior to presenting her collection at New York Fashion Week for the first time for the Fall / Winter shows, Pink Tartan’s Kimberly Newport-Mimran confided about her place in the fashion marketplace. “My niche is designing from day to dinner, and clothes that you can travel with and clothes that you pack and clothes for everyday life that are put together in a sophisticated way,” she told Uinterview exclusively.