About

ROZANA PALOKA is the Creative Director of her namesake brand. Her earliest memories as a child in Prishtina, Kosovo are steeped in what would serve as the foundation for a life-long love for fashion design. Born into an intellectually stimulating (her father was a journalist) and stylistically creative household (her mother was a private Pret-A-Couture designer), PALOKA’S artistic leanings took shape amidst her influential, unorthodox surroundings.

Fast forward to a tumultuous political upheaval in Kosovo that led her family to flee as refugees to the United States, bringing PALOKA in the late-nineties to one of the great fashion capitals of the world, New York City. True to PALOKA’S entrepreneurial spirit and love of food and entertaining, she entered into a partnership creating, designing interiors and giving life to several successful restaurants in Manhattan.

Her creative expression as a restaurateur reinvigorated her love of innovation and design, inspiring her to enroll at F.I.T. for a formal education in fashion design. PALOKA followed up by attending the renowned Polimoda School of Fashion Design in Florence, Italy refining her skills in conceptual, forward-thinking design.

In February 2017, PALOKA launched her namesake collection that encapsulates her philosophy as a designer, brilliantly balancing elements of her heritage, femininity, modernist leanings and a love of luxury, beauty & craftsmanship.