Mel Ziegler and Patricia Ziegler

For the artist, see Mel Ziegler (artist).

Mel Ziegler and Patricia Ziegler are an American business couple. They are the founders of Banana Republic, a clothing and accessory retailer.^[1] Alongside William Rosenzweig, they co-founded The Republic of Tea. They eventually sold both companies.^[2][3]

The Zieglers subsequently founded another apparel company, Zoza,^[2][3][4] but this was shut down in the dot com crash of 2000.^[5]

Their eldest son, Zio Ziegler, is a large-scale metal sculptor, painter, and street artist.^[6] The couple published a 2012 memoir titled Wild Company, The Untold Story of Banana Republic.

References

1. Rubin, lvia (October 10, 2000). "A New Republic / Banana Republic founders Patricia and Mel Ziegler are selling athletic-based clothing over the Web". SFGate.
2. Hellman, Peter (September 28, 2000). "AT HOME WITH/MEL AND PATRICIA ZIEGLER; About to Hatch Their Third Republic". The New York Times. New York. ISSN 0362-4331. OCLC 1645522. Retrieved April 9, 2011.
3. "Be present, not tense: Mel Ziegler". reveries magazine. reveries.com. December 2000. Archived from the original on July 15, 2011. Retrieved April 9, 2011. 'I was either going to be a curmudgeon, sitting on the edge of it, shaking my finger at it. Or I was going to go see what it was all about.' Mel Ziegler, who with his wife Patricia invented and sold Banana Republic and Republic of Tea, is explaining the end of a hiatus and the beginning of a new journey called ZoZa Interview with Mel Ziegler.
4. Dunn, Casey (October 9, 2001). "ZoZa Site Overview". What was ZoZa.com. Retrieved April 9, 2011.
5. Dunn, Casey (October 9, 2001). "ZoZa Summary". What was ZoZa.com. Retrieved April 9, 2011.
6. Lipton, Josh (December 23, 2014), Zio Ziegler: The artist for tech's elite, CNBC.

Bibliography

• Ziegler, Mel; Rosenzweig, Bill; Ziegler, Patricia (1992). The Republic of Tea : letters to a young zentrepeneur. New York: Currency Doubleday. ISBN 978-0-385-42056-3. OCLC 645832406. Later re-published as: Ziegler, Mel; Rosenzweig, Bill; Ziegler, Patricia (September 1, 1994) [1992]. The republic of tea : the story of the creation of a business, as told through the personal letters of its founders (1st Currency paperback ed.). New York: Crown Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-385-42057-0. OCLC 31302063.