Jack Mackenroth - Early Life

Early Life

His sister, Sarah Kietzer, relates that when Mackenroth was a little kid he rode his bike into a boat parked on the side of the road requiring twelve stitches.

Although he was a late bloomer and had trouble fitting in by the time he reached high school, he began to express himself through sewing. "I was a total club kid. I hung out with all the alternative kids at school, and we all made our own clothes and cut our own hair," he says. "I always had a knack for it and I wanted to look cool, but I didn’t have the money, so I would just alter items I already had. At the time, it really irritated my mother, but look at me now!"

Mackenroth was pre-med at the University of California, Berkeley for the first two years, following in the footsteps of his mom who was a nurse at Seattle's Harborview Medical Center, but later graduated with a double degree in Fine Arts and Sociology after he figured he could actually make a living in the fashion industry.