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Nina Zilka is the co-founder and designer for Alder New York, which creates high end menswear, and a natural apothecary line sold at retailers like Anthropologie and high-end salons like F.S.C Barber and Kaufmann Mercantile. As a member and the studio manager for the Pratt Design Incubator, her and her business partner David J. Krause are focused on sustainable production and local manufacturing. While still a student at Pratt Institute, Nina started her first women's label, The Twentyten, with two of her peers, which found success in progressive boutiques in New York and LA and the fashion press before closing in 2011. Over the years Nina’s work has been featured and reviewed by publications such as WWD, Surface, Time Out New York, Daily Candy, Refinery 29, Elle, Essence, and many others.