Yvette Irene

Yvette Irene recognized at an early age that she had found her true passion in Fashion and Interior Design. As a young girl, she can vividly remember her mother always creatively rearranging the furniture in their home. Her father’s strong personality and strict upbringing taught her early on that hard work pays off, and that nothing comes easy that is worth it. At the young age of thirteen, Yvette began taking classes at New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology, while attending high school simultaneously, to immerse herself in the design world. Later only to become armed with a degree in Accessory Design from The Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, and a degree in Visual Arts from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Yvette has designed for many manufacturers supplying exclusive retailers such as Neiman Marcus, Bloomingdale's, and Horchow. In September 2001, Yvette opened her business, a full service custom Interior Design House in the DC metro area. Yvette’s non-stylized design ranges from Modern to Traditional and everything in between. Yvette Irene is a full service Design House and Fabrication Studio, complete with in house seamstresses. Providing conceptual design to a turnkey space, Yvette Irene provides it all for her clients, with a team in place like no other. When designing a room, house, or a commercial space, Yvette works with her client’s lifestyle, personality and vision. This enables her to design a place for them that truly reflects their individual self, or a message that they are trying to portray to their clientele if it is a commercially designed space. For Yvette, she believes that one size does not fit all and therefore no two clients are the same. Priding herself in designing the unpredictable, she likes to create inviting, beautiful, fashionable, yet functional spaces…what she refers to as “approachable design.”