About

Lane Tabb is a luxury design, sustainability, and innovation specialist, focused on merging new technologies with localized artisan craftsmanship in luxury fashion and lifestyle categories. 

Lane had worked with some of the most esteemed fashion leaders on the planet over the past 20 years including Donna Karan, Kate Spade, Rebecca Minkoff, Jill Stuart, Herve Leger, Max Azria, and many others. 

In 2013 Lane was tapped to lead one of the first fashion technology startup’s in San Francisco’s Silicon Valley. For 5 years Lane focused on the intersection of fashion and technology, which introduced her to thinking outside of the traditional fashion & design industry box. 

In 2019 Tabb returned to her roots in the fashion industry launching LLABB ALM, a fashion startup focused on sustainable advanced luxury design and manufacturing. 

Tabb’s Startup LLABB ALM was selected to participate in the XRC Labs Accelerator in 2019, was a runner up for the Accessories council Prize in sustainability, and in 2020 LLABB was selected to participate in the UBS Project Entrepreneur Accelerator. 

In 2021, Tabb grew the LLABB company to include a new luxury atelier for Handbags, Accessories and RTW fashion collections development, adding to her original technology-based system a renewed focus on the craft of localized artisanship and hand-making while utilizing these advanced technologies for speedier, less wasteful processes. 

IN 2023 Tabb was awarded the CFDA award for innovation in Manufacturing, and began focusing on consulting for larger brands in innovative and sustainable design processes through SUSTAIN brand advisory + Lab, as well as the re-launch of her own collection- NOVAE RES , culminating from the past 5 years of research and innovation- NOVAE RES is an on demand sustainable brand- the first of its kind- holding no inventory, and utilizing a POD system that each piece is made to customers exact fit from DTC purchase to customers door in 48 hours.

Lane Lives and works in the West Village, in NYC, with her husband George, and their two adorable pups Rocket and Lucky.