Alexandra Posen

About Alexandra Posen

I’m Alexandra Posen—an artist and creative director working at the intersection of art, creative leadership, and cultural change.I co-founded the fashion house Zac Posen and, over more than a decade, helped build it into an international luxury brand. In 2020, I created the Vote Mask, which became a widely adopted symbol during the U.S. election.At my core, I am an artist. I’m currently in a generative reboot: founding Futures Common, a creative advisory, while developing a small number of intentional artistic works. These include a short, poetic film I’ve created and am now expanding into a three-part, feature-length project, currently in early fundraising, and Believe Her—an activist artwork in the form of a scarf composed of 165 hand-drawn portraits of women who have spoken truth to power against their abusers, often at great personal risk.My advisory work draws directly from my artistic practice. I work across imagination, design, and emerging technologies, partnering with leaders to articulate vision, frame complex challenges, and guide early-stage ideas with clarity, depth, and aesthetic precision. I am a doula for green ideas.An artist\'s sensibility at the center of everything I do.

Experience

1. Co-founder, Creative Director

   Resistance By Design

   Jun 2018 — Present · New York, NY, US

   Resistance by Design is an activist art and design platform I founded to create symbolic objects that operate as cultural interventions.In 2018, I created the Herwave scarf—a hand-drawn textile featuring 209 female Democratic congressional candidates. The scarf became a viral emblem of feminist power and collective visibility and is now part of the permanent collection of the RISD Museum.In 2020, I created the Vote Mask, which emerged organically as a widely adopted symbol during the U.S. election, demonstrating how intimate, wearable objects can carry collective political meaning.The next work under Resistance by Design is Believe Her (forthcoming, early 2026): an activist artwork in the form of a scarf composed of 165 hand-drawn portraits of women who have spoken truth to power against their abusers, often at great personal risk. Believe Her stands both as a testament to the courage and strength of these women and as a scathing indictment of the current administration’s moral bankruptcy.As with prior works, the piece is conceived not as merchandise, but as a cultural artifact—designed to circulate, signal solidarity, and endure.

Education

• École Jacques Lecoq

  Bachelor of Arts - BA, Mime, Physical Theater and Masks

• Laboratoire des Etudes de Mouvement (LEM)

  Spacial Dynamics / Architecture

  1995 — 1996

• Brown University

  BA, Theater/Visual Arts

  1990 — 2004

Skills

• Adobe Creative Suite
• Fashion Design
• Theatre
• Fashion
• Concept Development
• Video
• Graphic Design
• Fashion Illustration
• Art
• Art Direction
• Fine Art
• Painting
• Draping
• Apparel
• Mixed Media
• Drawing
• Photography
• Photoshop