Gina Renee has been working in the garment industry since 2003, when she graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in New York City (NYC). Directly after graduating with a fashion design degree, she worked in high fashion in NYC, fitting beautiful gowns and tailoring women's [...] living in NYC for five years, she moved to California, where she worked for two leading action sports clothing brands, creating snowboarding outerwear and surfing [...] 2012, Gina and her husband moved to Germany, where she worked as a freelancepatternmaker and started Gina Renee Designs, an Indie sewing pattern company. To view her sewing pattern collection and download her patterns, visit [...] has lived in Switzerland since 2014, where she led a talented team of patternmakers and developers at a well-known European sportswear brand. In 2022, she decided to go full-time with her business, teaching about patternmaking, fitting, and designing. With this, Gina has found her true calling by sharing all the information she learned while working in the garment [...] main task while working in the garment industry has always been to develop quality clothes that fit well. She has fitted tens of thousands of garments during her career. Gina has fitted numerous top-performing athletes from several different nations. Several have won gold medals in the world's highest international competitions while wearing garments she fitted for them. Gina has always loved the technical side of fitting, and her goal is to help you achieve the perfectly-fitting clothes you dream [...] is also the creator of The GRD Method(TM) of patternmaking and designing. GRD stands for Gina's name. Her online course, "Making a Moulage - The GRD Method(TM)," gives you a solid foundation in patternmaking from which you can design the clothes of your dreams. The onlinedesign course "Define, Design, & Love Your Style - The GRD Method(TM)" teaches you how to create an entire collection that flatters your body type. The course "Mastering Garment Ease - The GRD Method(TM)" shows you how to execute pattern corrections before cutting a fitting sample so that you have fewer fitting [...] information can be found at [...] or at [...] grew up in Colorado and is a nature-girl by heart. She is happy to be living near nature once again in Switzerland. During her free time, she enjoys hiking, swimming, and cycling in the beautiful Swiss Alps. And let's not forget her most important hobby - sewing!