Michael Cavayero was born in New York City and raised in Merrick and Syosset, NY, two Long Island suburbs. Mr. Cavayero received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from New York University in 2009, and studied at the Cooper Union School of Art and Harvard's Graduate School of Design GSD in Cambridge, MA. Mr.
Nick Cave is a Professor and Chair of the Fashion Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he teaches in the Fiber Arts Program. He has led numerous workshops on topics such as Extending the Body: Experiments in Clothing and has designed, manufactured, and marketed his own line