Laura Dahl is an American

United States

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 fashion designer. A native of Las Vegas

Las Vegas, Nevada

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, NV

Nevada

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, she attended the University of Arizona

University of Arizona

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 in Tucson, Arizona

Arizona

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 and continued her studies at the Fashion Institute of Technology

Fashion Institute of Technology

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 in New York City

New York City

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Career

Before launching her own line of contemporary women's clothing, Dahl worked in the fashion houses of Cynthia Rowley

Cynthia Rowley

Cynthia Rowley is an American fashion designer. The fashion label she created in the early 1980s bears her name.-Background:...

, Anne Bowen, and Catherine Malandrino

Catherine Malandrino

Catherine Malandrino is a fashion designer. She was born in Grenoble, France and now works in New York City as well as in Paris.-Profile:...

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In 2003 Dahl launched her first line called Wifebeader by Laura Dahl which focused on embellished tops. Soon after being featured on Daily Candy (a fashion newsletter), Wifebeader was picked up by Bloomingdales and later that season Anthropologie

Anthropologie

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The Laura Dahl label was launched in Fall 2006. It is currently being sold in Nordstrom

Nordstrom

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That same year the Showtime Network' The L Word

The L Word

The L Word is an American co-production television drama series originally shown on Showtime portraying the lives of a group of lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people and their friends, family and lovers in the trendy Greater Los Angeles, California city of West Hollywood...

selected Laura Dahl as one of their featured designers for the "L'ements of Style" collection.

Her brother, Matthew Gray Gubler

Matthew Gray Gubler

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, is an actor/director and has since 2004 been a cast member on the CBS

CBS

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 crime drama, Criminal Minds

Criminal Minds

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External links

• Official website
• "Atypical Holiday Dressing" Forbes
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• Las Vegas Weekly
• Laura Dahl on Twitter
• The Fantastical Life of Laura Dahl