In the Press
WWD — “Stacia Opens Santa Monica Store” (July 2011)
“In 2004, six-year-old Brooklyn store Stacia New York had survived the burst of the dot-com bubble and the 9/11 attacks to do decent business. But its owner, the designer Stacy Johnson, felt trapped in its brownstone walls.”
Voyage LA Magazine — “Meet Stacy Johnson of Stacia in Santa Monica” (September 11, 2018)
“After graduating Parsons School of Design, I started my fashion career on Seventh Avenue apprenticing for Calvin Klein, J. Crew, and Cynthia Rowley before breaking out on my own, starting the brand Stacia out of my Brooklyn brownstone apartment.”
Read the interview at Voyage LA Magazine
SHOUTOUT LA — “Meet Stacy Johnson | Fashion Designer” (September 21, 2020)
“When I first started my business, Stacia, twenty years ago, there was very little work life balance. … For ten years I shifted my focus from retail to wholesale and ran a successful knitwear business selling to over 300 stores nationwide.”
Read the interview at SHOUTOUT LA
Patch (Park Slope) — “Brooklyn Featured In Children’s ‘Love Story’ To NYC Fashion” (November 24, 2020)
“I wanted to create this book to inspire future designers and give girls the tools and power to be their own fashion entrepreneur some day,” Johnson told Patch about her children’s book “Mabel The Fashion Muse.”
CanvasRebel Magazine — “Meet Stacy Johnson” (December 22, 2022)
“I wanted to go back to my Brooklyn roots and flip through my archive patterns from Y2K and get back to the drawing board, making my own patterns, cutting each garment in-house instead of relying on a factory. ”
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