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Who Started Serena & Lily? Meet Its Co-Founders

Serena Dugan and Lily Kanter started Serena & Lily in 2003, pairing textile design with retail experience to launch nursery and crib bedding.
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Serena & Lily was founded in 2003 by Serena Dugan and Lily Kanter. Dugan brought a textile-design background; Kanter had opened the Mill Valley Baby & Kids store. Their first business focused on nursery and crib bedding.

How Serena Dugan and Lily Kanter met

Their partnership began at Kanter’s Mill Valley Baby & Kids store. Dugan had developed hand block-printed fabrics and accessories, selling them through interior designers and boutiques. She brought her design portfolio to the store in 2003, and the two decided to work together soon after meeting.

The accounts give different levels of detail about the timing: a later interview with Kanter says Dugan left her portfolio on October 2, 2003, and they met a week later; an Arizona State University W. P. Carey magazine profile says they decided to join forces within 24 hours of meeting. Both accounts place the start of their collaboration in 2003. Kanter’s interview W. P. Carey profile

What the co-founders brought to the company

Dugan brought a textile and printmaking practice, while Kanter contributed retail and business experience. In Dugan’s first-person account, she recalled, “And shortly after that launched I met Lily, and Serena & Lily was conceived.” Dugan’s interview

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What Serena & Lily started out selling

The company began with a design-led line of nursery and crib bedding. Kanter said the founders saw a gap in nursery products and shared a vision for the category. The pairing joined Dugan’s original textile designs with Kanter’s experience running a baby and kids store.

Serena & Lily initially grew as a wholesale brand. A 2015 profile of Kanter in Arizona State University’s W. P. Carey magazine reported that the company sold baby products through 600 specialty stores, including Bloomingdale’s and Neiman Marcus, before launching its own website. That is the profile’s reported figure, not an independently audited store count. W. P. Carey profile

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What the brand name means

The name joins the co-founders’ first names: Serena Dugan and Lily Kanter. Serena and Lily are not one founder’s full name.

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When was Serena & Lily founded?

The sources describe the company’s start as 2003. They support the founders’ identities, the year, and the initial nursery-bedding focus, but do not establish a separate legal incorporation date.

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