Emily Current and Meritt Elliott are the founders and creative directors of THE GREAT., a multi-category apparel collection currently sold at over 125 of the world’s best stores.

Their journey began at UCLA, where they bonded over a shared love of everything denim and Americana and weekend hunts for the perfect pair of vintage jeans. Soon after graduation, they embarked on a creative partnership,-dressing celebrities for the red carpet, styling editorials and art directing advertising campaigns. In addition to their work as stylists, the duo launched their denim brainchild, the brand CURRENT/ELLIOTT, to much fanfare in 2008.

Emily and Meritt were then tapped by Kate Spade New York in 2011 to design a capsule collection of handbags for the global lifestyle brand.

In Spring 2012, Emily and Meritt joined an elite rank of designers when they became members of the prestigious Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA).

After exitinged CURRENT/ELLIOTT in late 2012. In Fall 2013, Emily and Meritt made their first venture in the home design arena, collaborating with Pottery Barn for debuted an ongoing product collaboration.

In a visual ode to their varied career, encapsulating their love affair with denim and imaginative worldview, Emily and Meritt penned A Denim Story: Inspirations From Bell-bottoms To Boyfriends, a coffee table book published by Rizzoli in Spring 2014, and currently on it’s third re-print.

Now mothers, neighbors and still best friends, Emily and Meritt find balance in spending time with their families, working on charity projects, creating new collections each season for THE GREAT. and as they did all those years ago, scouring flea markets for that perfect pair of vintage jeans.