Derek Patterson is an apparel design leader with more than twenty years of experience across outdoor, performance, action sports, heritage, and lifestyle collections.
His practice connects consumer insight and brand strategy with seasonal concept, color, print, and product development. From the first idea through production, he works with design, development, merchandising, buying, and digital teams to build cohesive, commercially relevant collections.
From direction to delivery
Consumer & brand direction
Collection, color & material development
Product development & cross-functional collaboration
Work across
Columbia Sportswear · Reebok · Proof for Huckberry · Southern Shirt Co.