This design was long awaited. For two years, I dreamt of designing a piece to wear that would marry two of my loves: the traditional Japanese kimono, in its familiarity, with nods to historical high-design French details. Traditionally luxurious details such as the ribbon detailing in the sleeve (a call to 1850s French style) and the gathering pull on the sides (mimicking a 1770's-'80's pull in French gowns to draw up the hemline) are, in this piece, made utilitarian and effortless, juxtaposed by the fabric, the minimization, and the simplicity of this jacket. The story is in the details; from the design, to the usage of fine silk thread to sew utilitarian patterning throughout the piece. There are so many different...
The distractions we currently face in our culture are those of intentionality, in my opinion, by something that wants to scatter us, confuse us, and isolate us from one another. The most growing, nurturing thing this world has to offer us is community with one another; but in the past few years, I’d assume we can all agree that our families and friendships have felt broken apart in some way, by difference of opinion. I continue to see heavy hearts in people of all ages and dynamics, who feel hurt and disconnected— like someone placed a thick glass divider between them and multiple people who they love, but who have a different point of view. Some of these conversations in...
One morning recently, Christian and I woke up early and decided to take the camera to visit a historic area near the top of the Mobile Bay. The culture and history of this area inspired so many of my design choices years ago when making this collection, and to see the pieces next to the structures that influenced them, whether subtly or strongly, was so powerful to me. To allow these pieces to tell stories in the same way that structures built by the generations before us tell them, would be a beautiful success.
Pieces shown: One-Button Top and Paperbag Pant Set in Wet Clay; Mama Dress in Grass
This blog in particular is very personal to my experience, and based completely in my opinion developed by living that experience. Hopefully, it will at least be an interesting read for you, to consider a different point of view. In 2015, Christian and I were in a wreck. He was totally fine, but I suffered from some pretty severe whiplash and back pain. My lawyer recommended that I try daily yoga to help relieve the pain over the years, having seen his wife go through something very similar when she was my age, and how much yoga helped her live pain free. It was then that I began practicing yoga multiple times a week. I knew that it was...
Multiple variables in our lives add up to causing or making worse our mental health-and if anyone knows how interrelated mental and physical health can be, it’s me. The last year of my life has been filled with life-or-death changes and decisions for my health, including changes in my thought life, my family life, my work life, my lifestyle and my diet. Diet plays SUCH an incredibly important role in our mental health, because of how our bodies respond to or digest the food we eat. There are foods that can make anxiety far worse, and there are foods that can drastically help our brains to heal. Our gut (which is for some weird reason a buzz word right...
