Stacy Igel

Early life

Igel was born in Chicago. She attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she majored in retailing, with concentrations in design and merchandising, and secured a certificate in business.

Personal life

Igel, born as Stacy Morgenstern, is of Jewish heritage. She is married to Brian Igel. On October 4, 2014, Igel gave birth to her first baby, Dylan Reid Igel. Igel currently resides in New York City.

Career

Igel held internships with several designers, including Zandra Rhodes and Donna Karan, as well as on-air icon, Elsa Klensch. Igel then secured a position at IZOD, and then Elie Tahari. In 2001, Igel launched her brand, “Deesh”. Continuing to feature the well-known Boy/Girl silhouettes which define the brand, in 2006, Igel officially dropped the brand name Deesh and marketed her brand exclusively as Boy Meets Girl. In 2010, Igel partnered with The Moret Group and launched the first Boy Meets Girl New York Fashion Week (NYFW) show, titled “Intrepid Traveler”, featuring a musical performance from The Neon Trees. In 2015, Igel purchased the Boy Meets Girl brand and company under private ownership. The brand, Boy Meets Girl (BMG), has been worn by celebrities such as Rosario Dawson, Rachel Bilson, Nina Dobrev, and Kendall Jenner. The Boy Meets Girl brand’s iconic boy and girl silhouette logo has been featured in publications including InStyle, Teen Vogue, Lucky, Seventeen, Women’s Wear Daily, and The New York Times, among others. The brand, currently sold at Nordstrom, has previously been seen on the racks of department stores such as Bergdorf Goodman and Bloomingdales. BMG offers a full range of graphics tops and bottoms, as well as jackets, sweaters, and accessories.

Charity

Igel’s philanthropic work includes her involvement with the Young Survival Coalition (YSC), a charity that focuses on helping young woman who are diagnosed with and have survived breast cancer. Starting in 2008, Stacy Igel, on behalf of Boy Meets Girl has sponsored and co-chaired the Young Survival Coalition’s (YSC) annual In Living Pink Gala to raise money for breast cancer research. Igel collaborated with Urban Outfitters in 2009 to create Boy Meets Girl x YSC clothing and accessory products that have raised over $20,000 for the YSC. In 2010 Boy Meets Girl and the YSC collaborated again, this time with Campus Candy, to create a t-shirt that gave a percentage of the sales back to the YSC. In October 2013, in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Boy Meets Girl gave 20% of its sales of the classic black and pink “Coco” hoodie to the YSC.

In addition, since 2009 Igel, on behalf of Boy Meets Girl has worked with the BullyBust Campaign, on behalf of the National School Climate Center (NSCC), to raise awareness to help stop bullying in schools nationwide. Igel partnered with teen celebrity, Sammi Hanratty, to educate teens on how to stand up to bullying. Igel created a Boy Meets Girl t-shirt, which sold exclusively at Bloomingdales, to raise money for the anti-bullying movement. Igel has sponsored various BullyBust events, including the annual fundraising gala, to continue help raise awareness. In October 2013, in honor of bullying prevention month, Boy Meets Girl gave 20% of its sales of the classic grey and black “Coco” hoodie to the NSCC Bully Bust campaign. Igel’s passion for ending bullying spawned her 2012-2013 campaign with beauty vlogger, Cassandra Bankson of Diamondsandheels14, called #BMGLiveOutLoud. The ongoing mission of #BMGLiveOutLoud, with the support of the BullyBust campaign and the National School Climate Center (NSCC), is to appoint and honor those who have stood up for themselves and up to bullying in various countries around the world.