is a designer, artist, and owner of Juda Leah Atelier, custom design studio. She creates artwork, fashion and home collections under her namesake brand, Juda Leah. Her work blends genres of art and fashion into a bold and expressive medium, elevating the wearer, and the home.

 

She is a graduate from the Fashion Institute of Technology, and holds a BFA in Fashion Design, with a focus in Fashion Illustration and Special Occasion, Couture Techniques and Bridal. She has taught sewing and fashion design workshops and private classes for 15 years.  Recently, Juda has begun to study the art of Feng Shui. She incorporates these philosophies into her work, and in her private design consulting.

 

She has dressed NYC stylists and Advanced Style stars Barbara Flood and Purely Patricia Fox, musical artists Simi Stone, Amanda Boyd, Eric Redd and The B-52's Kate Pierson. Juda Leah has a passion for performance, dance and theatre, and works regularly as an art director and stylist with SMW & THE HOUSE PARTY BAND and SMW Studios. 

 

She lives/works from her Victorian fixer upper in Catskill, NY with her husband Sean Matthew Whiteford (rock musical artist, producer, composer, SMW Studios), and baby daughter, Nova Rose.

 

Featured in Chronogram, Saratoga Living, Hudson Valley Wedding Vortex and Savor Life magazines.

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