Emmy Zaatar
Emmy Zaatar is inspired by nature; specifically, the human fingerprint on the earth which indicates the connections between humans and nature. She strives to give clients a deeper appreciation for their role in the natural world around them when they don her elemental designs.
Sarah Vocke
As a designer, Sarah is interested in appealing to audiences with a thirst for fashion and innovation. She uses her experiences and education to create a complimentary mix of business and art. She is very passionate about her work, but also about what surrounds her. Her energetic spunk for life and subtle edge never fails to seek out the next up and coming.
Alixzandra Jyawook
By combining bold use of color, volume, and romantic ideals, Alixzandra is able to express complex characteristics present in her personality through her designs.
Para Low
Para’s work focuses on social issues within a cross-cultural context. She is heavily influenced by Cantonese culture, mythology, and symbolism. As a child of immigrants, she often explores her cultural heritage and seeks to reconcile it with her identity as an American. Para’s goal is to engage viewers in a discussion while forcing them to deemphasize Western ideals, viewpoints, and unconscious associations.
Gabi Rodriguez
Gabi is connected with the energy of Mother Earth. She is here to create sustainable designs for divine and spiritual conscious women. She believes in reducing harm on the environment by acting consciously on the energy she consumes and her designs are created to seek truth within the mind and soul.
Droxity
As an artistic polymath, Droxity is influenced by fine arts across a broad spectrum.
Courtney B.
Designers are artists, magicians, trend setters, therapists, and anything else customers need the designer to be. Courtney B. became a designer to fill this varying role and help be the peace in people’s lives.
Samantha Ruedisueli
Samantha reintroduces historic narratives innovatively through modern silhouettes and exploration of textiles.
Mimi Pinciotti
Mimi is influenced by nature and a person’s natural instinct. It is the driving force of her designs. They’re captivating, personal, and for that, never go unnoticed. Each piece is as eclectic and diverse as the next, holding a varied sense of nature. They are timeless and draw you in. They catch your eye and don’t like to be ignored.
Ruth Chae
Ruth embodies unconventional ideas, the influence of topics outside the art world, and her desire to not take life too seriously in her designs.
Kanna Oku
Ekanem Oku designs are for the modern woman who prefers a little comfort with her sex appeal. Her creations are sleek, minimal, and treated with enhancements to compliment the figure without compromising ease and flexibility.
Hunter Walton
Driven by the desire for dialogue, Hunter Walton’s designs are inspired by often controversial topics. Preferring to keep silhouettes simple, Walton’s garments are made unique by their complex and diverse surface treatments.
Hannah Turnbull
Hannah’s silhouettes and ideas often derive from animals, sports, or locations in an abstracted manner.
Alexa Gallo
Alexa creates designs inspired by nature. Her designs are feminine in structure and silhouette, with youth and sophistication.
Kaity Ward
Kaity’s personal designs are focused on empowering women and challenging stereotypes. Her inspiration stems from the belief that strength is not limited to gender, race, or physicality, but is a trait that’s innate in all of us. Kaity believes fashion has the power to bring out that strength.
Nazie Jamalifard
Minimalistic designer that pushes conceptual depth.
Demetrius Liyongo
Oscar Wilde once wrote, “There’s only one thing worse than being talked about and that is not being talked about,” and I think about that often.
Aochi Liu
Aochi has always been attracted to interesting line structures around her. She believes that if we ignore all the complexity that is applied to an object, everything comes from lines. Line is the origin of Aochi’s designs, and she wants to challenge herself to bring out designs that are inspiring and innovative with minimal complexity.
Dana Konkel
Dana draws inspiration from nature and the infinite shapes and textures it holds. She aims to recreate the many aspects of nature into her pieces in an appealing, purposeful way, giving justice and beauty to each element she draws inspiration from.
Breanna Goree
Breanna Goree creates designs with the intention of bringing feminine motifs together in fashions for the young and vibrant. She is inspired by traditional ideas of youth in order to produce garments with refined styles that vary in aesthetics and themes. Breanna explores niches of fashion, which she uses to expose meaningful insights through fabric in an artistic manner.
Denelle Havercroft
Denelle is a fashion enthusiast striving to bring more classical elegance into the world, turning everyday things into timeless pieces through style and design.
Amy Leuenhagen
A lot of what Amy loves to explore as a designer has to do with femininity. She is drawn to beauty, grace, youthfulness, and playfulness. She believes that women and girls can be anything they want to be, and what they’re wearing can give them the confidence to do so.
ShaeJerome
Being an outcast has never been good until now.
Qi Zhang
Qi is a culture-mixer, color-player, and feminist designer in her art and design creative process.
Sophia Mackoul
Sophia’s work is inspired by nature and architecture, focusing on the shapes and details within the object which are often over looked.
Zani’jah Gardner
Zani’jah Gardner is a naturalistic, innovative, and edgy designer. She focuses on capturing the essence of shapes within nature and combines them with ideas that express feelings and visuals of everyday experiences.
Isabel Inch
Isabel captures the transformative moments in life by creating pieces that are equally dynamic and aesthetically pleasing. Inspired by color blocking and hidden details, she creates pieces that will transform the body of the wearer.
Brooke Colville
Brooke’s designs are inspired mostly by nature and are focused in knitwear. As humans, she believes we often take for granted the natural wonders of our Earth. Through an alternative medium that is fashion, Brooke aspires to challenge people to think more of the beauty and depth of life we are fortunate enough to be provided with on a daily basis through her playful designs.
Chantel Booker
Chantel’s designs address social and political issue’s in today’s society. She likes to think of her designs as her own reactions to problems in everyday life. Chantel’s designs are meant to bring awareness to these problems.
Kitty Johnson
Kitty represents her heritage and experiences in everything she creates. Her art is an extension of her ideologies. With her work, she hopes to empathize with anyone who may have the same feelings or perspective, and introduce new ideas to the people who do not share the same view point as herself.
Mitch Fehrle
Mitch believes design is one of the most powerful devices for education. His use of interdisciplinary construction techniques and presentation of unconventional garments aims to make complex concepts and scientific findings accessible to the viewer. Mitch values the power of artistic expression to both captivate and inform society.
Ireaby Jolly
Ranging from family to politics, Ireaby uses different aspects of the world around her to influence her art, designing to give them a more tangible feeling.
Rainie Jiang
With a theater costume design background, Rainie is influenced by the desire to create garments with a stage presence. She aims to design for all individuals, believing everyone is beautiful and confident, while incorporating elements of surprise to highlight the characteristics of theater.
Phoenix Kincaid
As an artist, Phoenix explores personal identity through a macabre lens to create designs that pull the viewer into a strange fantasy. The model becomes the character and vehicle to a world more whimsical.
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