MEET BRIT

Hello, I’m Brit.

I’m a buyer, product developer, designer, and creative strategist with a background in fashion, ethical manufacturing, e-commerce, and brand building.

I’ve always been fascinated by what makes a product feel special—not just how it looks, but the materials it’s made from, the way it’s constructed, the story behind it, and how it ultimately connects with the person who buys it.

My career started in fashion design and eventually led me to build my own leather goods company, Tesoro Design. For seven years, I was involved in nearly every part of bringing a product to market: sourcing leather, textiles, and hardware; designing collections; developing prototypes and technical specifications; managing manufacturing and quality; photographing products; building an e-commerce business; and creating the brand and marketing around them. Running a product-based business gave me an unusually hands-on understanding of the relationship between good design, thoughtful sourcing, strong storytelling, and commercial success.

Today, I bring that perspective to my work in buying and product development at Ten Thousand Villages. I work directly with artisan partners around the world to source, design, and develop products for wholesale and e-commerce. My work spans assortment planning, trend and competitive research, product concepts, materials, color and aesthetic direction, pricing, sampling, quality, packaging, and production. I’m constantly thinking about the balance between creativity and commerciality: What does the customer want? What is missing from the assortment? What can our artisan partners make exceptionally well? And how can we turn those pieces into products that feel distinctive, useful, and relevant?

That work has also brought me full circle. Because of my background in marketing, photography, and creative direction, I don't stop thinking about a product once it has been developed. I think about how it will live within a collection, how it should be styled and photographed, what its story is, how it will appear online or in a store, and why a customer will care about it.

What I Bring

Buying + Product Development
I develop products and assortments by bringing together customer insights, sales performance, market trends, aesthetics, functionality, pricing, and production capabilities. I enjoy identifying opportunities and working with makers and suppliers to turn an initial idea into a product that can succeed in the market.

Materials + Manufacturing
My roots are in making. Through Tesoro Design, I developed hands-on experience sourcing and working with leather, textiles, hardware, and trims while managing product development and manufacturing from concept through finished goods. That experience continues to shape how I evaluate materials, construction, quality, durability, and craftsmanship today.

Design + Creative Direction
I develop product concepts, color stories, collections, and visual direction with an eye toward creating something distinctive without losing sight of the customer. My experience also includes photography, styling, visual merchandising, packaging, web design, and creative production.

Brand + Commercial Strategy
I believe the strongest products sit at the intersection of good design and good business. I use customer behavior, sales performance, competitive research, brand positioning, and storytelling to help determine not only what should be made, but why it belongs in the assortment and how it should be brought to market.

What ties all of my work together is curiosity. I love discovering an interesting material, an overlooked craft technique, a shift in what customers are responding to, or an idea that can become something tangible. I’m equally comfortable talking through construction with a maker, analyzing an assortment, developing a new product concept, directing a photoshoot, or figuring out how to tell the story once the product is ready.

I’m most excited by opportunities where I can bring those worlds together—product, materials, design, sourcing, buying, and brand—to create things people genuinely want to own.