An evening with Josie Natori

The Natori Company is a women's fashion designer and manufacturer based in New York City.

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The Natori Company is a women's fashion designer and manufacturer based in New York City. The company sells lingerie, nightwear, ready-to-wear loungewear, leg wear, and underwear to upscale department stores in the US and around the world. Natori is also in the home furnishings industry, shoes, bags, dog apparel, sunglasses, and jewelry. Internationally known Filipino designer and Asian Cultural Council chairman Josie Natori is the founder of Natori but started her career at Merrill Lynch, where she became the first female vice president in investment banking. She decided to pursue a childhood dream of being an entrepreneur but settled on fashion after a buyer at Bloomingdale's suggested she lengthen some blouses from the Philippines and alter it to be sold as nightshirts. This is how her clothing company began.