[2] After graduating with honors, she attended Bowdoin College in Maine, where she received a degree in English Literature and Visual Arts and captained the tennis and squash teams.
[citation needed] Davis also developed communication, creative and entrepreneurial skills throughout her educational years by serving as the editor-in-chief for the Loomis Chaffee school yearbook, writing Bowdoin Orient’s “Mainely Health” column on ways to maintain a healthy lifestyle, and publishing Babson’s newsletter “MBA Communique” where she pursued an MBA in entrepreneurship from the F.W.
[6] In 1989, she started her first independent entrepreneurial venture in Vermont, a hybrid fitness business that combined a workout studio and a sports gear store.
UGGs were then “one of the most popular statement pieces,” with major celebrities like Kim Kardashian and Paris Hilton caught wearing them in paparazzi shots.
[13] An offer to work at Tommy Hilfiger as the VP of Marketing and Design for Women's Footwear brought Davis from California to New York.
[14] A typical Ruthie Davis shoe has been described as “clean, minimal, functional, sleek, sexy.”[14] Her designs often reference architecture, modernism, future technology, and her passion for ‘60s Italian cinema.
[15] Featured in global retailer establishments including Neiman Marcus and Harvey Nichols and on top-tier magazines like Vogue and Elle, within a few years the Ruthie Davis brand gained an international reputation.
Davis has served as a fashion expert on mainstream TV and podcast channels, such as Bravo, E!, Bloomberg, CNBC, Fox News, and Yahoo Finance.