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.