I’m Kati Lovasz, the designer & founder of Kate & Rose. I was born in Hungary and raised in a lot of places, and I now live in New York with my artist husband, our two daughters, cat, and dog. I’ve always loved the folkwear of Central Europe, with its wildly colorful and varied embroidery.

My grandmother taught me how to sew the summer before I started high school, and sewing and making things has been a constant in my life ever since. It’s stayed with me through many moves and a few careers – I’ve worked as a translator, a non-profit manager, I’ve been an aspiring academic (with a finished Ph.D), I’ve danced in a flamenco troupe and made digital art and video installations. Through all of it the one thing that never changed was that I kept on sewing, stitching, making things.

After my daughters were born, many things changed in my life. I wanted more permanence, and work that builds on the things that were always a part of me. So, I went back to school to study patternmaking at FIT in New York, and started the Kate & Rose pattern line with the Róza contemporary peasant blouse. Since then, I've released a series of hot-iron embroidery transfers based on several styles of Hungarian folk embroidery, followed by the three women's sewing patterns of the Midtown Collection.