About Pamela Thompson

Fashion Designer

Pamela knew from the age of 12 that she wanted to be a fashion designer. She went to NYC from Chicago to launch her career in 1993. Her dream after leaving FIT in NY was so work for both Anna Sui and Betsey Johnson. She was lucky enough to realize both dreams.

Pamela started in the 90’s club scene creating her own line at age 24. In 1998, Pamela got her dream job working for Anna Sui, designing and fabric/trim researching for each collection. After leaving Anna Sui, Pamela designed Anna’s first website which was up for 10 years and also designed various tee shirt graphics and fashion show invitations freelance.

Pamela’s next dream job was realized in 2001 when she was hired to be Head Designer at Betsey Johnson, designing some of Betsey's best selling dresses and sportswear. After leaving Betsey Johnson, Pamela was hired by Richie Rich and Traver Rains as Head Designer for Heatherette, where she took the label from a press sensation, to a fun, wearable and saleable Collection.

Pamela currently works freelance as a fashion designer for various labels, many of which are start ups looking for a seasoned designer with well rounded industry experience in all areas of small Designer business. Pamela continues to collaborate and design for GhoDho, one of the start-ups she helped the owner successfully launch in 2012.

Leo Burnett Interactive hired Pamela to design a dress for a 30 second spot which ran on the Samsung billboard in Times Square in New York City.

Pamela also has designed clothing sets for 12” fashion dolls including College Savings Doll and Lammily. Another cool doll project included a freelance job to oversea a doll head sculpt of Kaya Jones from the Pussycat Dolls who was creating a doll and clothing sets to launch with her new single Hollywood Doll.

In addition to working as a ghost fashion designer, Pamela also had a few incarnations of her own Collections, including a line of streetwear called Space Girl, Lilytank and her own signature line and shop in NYC's East Village named Pamela Thompson. 

Over the years, Pamela has dressed many notable celebrities including Kirsten Dunst, Paris Hilton, Beyonce, Avril Lavigne, Cameron Diaz, Ashanti, Fergie, Jamie Lynn Siegler, Zoe Seldano, Lydia Hearst, Fergie, Beth Stern, Jojo, Kelly Osborne and Molly Sims.

Her designs have sold to major department stores including Henri Bendel, Bloomingdales and Nordstroms, as well as specialty stores throughout the US, Europe and Tokyo. Her designs have been featured in over 10 Women's Wear Daily issues (2 covers), The New York Times, Italian Vogue, Elle, W, Nylon, Cosmopolitan, Paper Magazine, In Style, Teen Vogue, Lucky, Allure and Fashion.net. 

Pamela's designs have also been presented in over 10 separate fashion shows, during NY's fashion week. in addition, Pamela was featured in the book Creative Careers in Fashion by Debbie Hartsog.

Currently Pamela designs capsule collections for her own 12” fashion dolls available for sale in her store Tinyfrockshop.com.

Graphic Designer

While working at Heatherette, Dollhouse,  Betsey Johnson  and for her own line, Pamela also got the chance to create graphic designs for tee shirts, textiles, accessories, labels, hangtags, packaging and web sites etc.

In August 2012, Pamela's graphic work was featured in Martin Dawber's book Modern Vintage Illustration.

Tiny Frock Shop

Pamela's newest venture is an online 12” fashion doll shop she created called Tiny Frock Shop, a magical high fashion playground for anyone who enjoys fashion and dolls. Pamela’s love of vintage clothes, her high end fashion design experience and her love of play combined seamlessly to create a place where fashion doll clothing and accessories are presented in a Vogue worthy editorial way. Tiny Frock Shop features mini-shops that include designs from many doll companies as well as independent doll designers. The shop currently consists of Barbie, Integrity Toys and independent designer clothing, accessories, furniture, housewares, dolls and a DIY section so you can get busy making your own clothes and accessories.

Artist

Pamela tried her hand at creating artwork shortly after 9/11 as a way of dealing with the enormous gravity of that catastrophic day. She has learned that art is a creative outlet that has no limits. In art there are no rules, no sizes to fit, no washing instructions, and no gender boundaries to adhere to. 

Pamela's first assault on the art world was with an exhibition of her 3 dimensional boxed pieces, at a gallery show sponsored by Concept Management Group, LTD in August, 2002. Pamela was written up in Women's Wear Daily with rave reviews. Other events she participated in was a show in association with TOAST - The Tribeca Art Walk, and featured a number of young artists whose pieces were available for sale during the five day show. Pamela was also accepted as a Finalist for the International Young Artist show sponsored by Artlink at Sotheby's where her work was set to be displayed in Moscow, Amsterdam and Tel-Aviv. Pamela's artwork was part of a collective in the Chelsea Arts Building in September of 2004, as part of City Found. From there, Pamela's work was picked up by gallery owner Laurence Assaraf, who owns A Taste of Art in Tribeca NYC.