La Ligne

is founded in 2016 by former American Vogue staffers Meredith Melling and Valerie Macaulay, along with Molly Howard, former Head of Business Development at Rag and Bone. The three co-founders built the designer clothing brand around their shared belief that stripes are the most democratic, timeless, and endlessly reinventable element in fashion, noting during their Vogue years that roughly one in five people on any given subway platform was wearing them. Launched as a direct-to-consumer brand, La Ligne quickly gained a devoted following for its stripe-led knitwear and wardrobe essentials, with fans including Dakota Johnson and Meghan Markle. Now celebrating its tenth anniversary, the brand has expanded to include a popular denim collection, with ten stores across the US.