Born and raised in Los Angeles, Liz Abbott left to go to school in San Francisco. While in SF, she joined some bands and worked various jobs, such as go-go dancing and making custom clothes for bands. After doing this for some time, she decided to move to NYC to finish her fashion design degree. Liz enrolled at FIT, and continued to break the rules by sneaking into 7th on 6th fashion week, participating in a renegade fashion show featuring the 7th on 6th crew. After graduation, Liz made like LL Cool J and went back to Cali. For the next 2 years she worked for various companies with animal logos in the American Spots Retail market. Realizing she wanted to get back to designing and making rock n roll clothes that she and her friends wore, she left the corporate world and Leatherette Heart was born, She then joined up with the Long Beach Craft Mafia and has been selling her clothing, jewelry and her signature bird barrettes, at independent design shows for the last year. She and the mafia were featured in an article in the OC weekly for which Liz was on the cover! (It helps to have a few cocktails before a photo shoot ;)) And in '09 Leatherette Heart was asked to show at RAW, in the beautiful Madison restaurant. She made all the clothes and designed and printed the fabric for the Adam Ant inspired collection. And we believe it rocked, just like Adam. more pictures of the show can be seen here http://www.rawartists.org/photo-gallery/raw-showcases/next-wave