Todd Snyder

Todd Snyder was born in Ames, Iowa, on November 29, 1967. He was raised in Huxley, Iowa. He graduated from Ballard High School, where he played football and basketball. His father was a civil engineer who "wore a suit and tie every day", and Snyder worked at their civil engineering firm as a draftsperson and surveyor. He initially studied finance at Iowa State University before changing his major to apparel merchandising and design.

In the 1990s, Snyder was a tailor's assistant at Badowers, a Des Moines menswear shop founded in 1950.

Snyder moved to New York to design outerwear for Polo Ralph Lauren before becoming the director of menswear for the Gap Inc. Snyder later became SVP of menswear at J. Crew, where he designed The Ludlow Suit, The Broken-in-Chino and The Secret Wash Shirt and created collaborations with heritage brands, including Timex, Red Wing Shoes, Thomas Mason, and Alden.

Snyder founded his namesake label in 2011 in New York City, influenced by Savile Row tailoring, vintage military clothing and American workwear. The brand launched its first menswear collection in the Fall of 2011 at Bergdorf Goodman, Ron Herman, and Neiman Marcus. In 2012, the fashion label was picked up by Barneys New York and select Nordstrom stores. Not long after, GQ named him “The Man Who Taught Men To Love Clothes” and dubbed his New York flagship “The Menswear Temple We’ve Been Waiting For.” He has been a winner of GQ's Best Menswear Designers in America, recognized four times by the Council of Fashion Designers of America as a Menswear Designer of the Year nominee and is a 2013 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund finalist.

In November 2015, American Eagle purchased the Todd Snyder clothing brand and Snyder's Tailgate brand of vintage-inspired collegiate sportswear for $11 million.

In 2023, Todd was announced as the new Creative Director for Woolrich, for whom he is designing a new upscale Black Label Collection that will debut in the fall of 2024.

In January 2024, Todd Snyder returned to the runway with his FW24 Collection "The Modernist" in Firenze, Italy at Pitti Uomo, the world's largest menswear trade show. Showing on the international stage to great praise, Todd Snyder was described by the New York Times as “the righteous inheritor of Ralph Lauren's mantle” and “arguably the most important American designer in Europe this season” by GQ.

Snyder lives in New York City and has three daughters. He sits on the Board of Directors for Goodwill Industries and LIM College, where in 2022 he received the College's "Distinguished Achievement Award" as well as an honorary Doctor of Commercial Science degree in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the business of fashion.