2026 Collection

This collection, VOICE celebrates having a voice and telling your story. We see fashion as a form of expression and communication that, much like language, can bring us together. We look to embrace how we all deserve to have a voice of self-expression and how creativity such as painting, embroidery, fashion, and poetry are ways to express love that can heal and make the world a better place.

This April, we focused on textile design processes through painted fabric techniques. Every look in this collection is hand painted. Additionally, like many of our previous designs, much of this collection is transformable or has detachable parts in some way to create a versatile, sustainable, and transitional wardrobe. This collection focuses on expressive, beautifully crafted, gender inclusive, and playful design.

As I dealt with some personal challenges over the past year, I came to realize the unique power of my own voice and the suffering that comes with imposed silence. I was inspired by a quote from Ursula K. Le Guin, “we are volcanoes, when we women offer our experience as truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.” Not just experienced by women, but by many disadvantaged groups, to be rendered voiceless is to be excluded from your own humanity. While silence may separate us, self-expression, through words or an art form such as fashion, can bring us together and create new paths. Our voices are essential.

If you did have a chance to watch our fashion show at VFW you will notice the models walked to my voice speaking spoken word poetry over some piano chords that I recorded on the track. I love the idea of presenting collections in a multidisciplinary way, in this case through music, poetry, painting, and fashion design. Rather than use a generic non-copyrighted track for our showcase, I was interested in recording the music and poetry myself to further the narrative of this collection. It was a more vulnerable and different approach to a runway show, but ended up being well received by the audience.