Monica Garrido-Lizei
Textile and Print Expert
Specializing in print and color direction across ready-to-wear, intimates, swim, and lifestyle categories.
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Her work focuses on clarifying product expression through cohesive visual systems—developing print, color, and surface direction that supports both brand identity and scalable product development.
Experience
With experience across fashion, performance, and product-driven retail environments, she works closely with design and merchandising teams to translate concept into structured, commercially viable assortments. Her approach balances creative direction with a strong understanding of how product is built, ensuring ideas move clearly from concept through execution.
Active Apparel Group
Coach
Victoria’s Secret
Saramax Apparel
Golden Touch Imports
Senior Graphic Designer,
2021– Present
Technical Print Designer,
2020
CAD Designer,
2015–2019
CAD Designer,
2014–2015
CAD Designer,
2011–2014
She moves fluidly between strategic thinking and hands-on development, contributing both at the level of direction and within the design process itself. This allows her to support teams in defining visual language while also ensuring it is realized effectively across product.
Approach
Alongside her work in product environments, she maintains an ongoing studio practice exploring pattern, rhythm, and composition. This practice informs her approach to print authorship and serves as the foundation for licensed applications across product and space.
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Her work is grounded in the belief that strong visual systems reduce uncertainty and enable more confident, cohesive decision-making across teams.
Whether working alongside a small team or contributing within a larger organization, I value helping ideas take shape in ways that feel clear, cohesive, and grounded.