Tell us a bit about your brand. How did it all start?
I studied painting in school, and was making mostly figurative work that dealt with ideas of gender and personal narrative. My senior year, I entered a competition at my college to create a fashion line. It was a bit on a whim, really! I didn’t, at the time, have any experience making clothing. I was thinking it would be more forgiving emotionally and a counterbalance to the difficult subject matter I was working with in other areas of study. I was really happy to find that working directly with and on the body felt extremely intuitive. I felt I could communicate things I’d been thinking about with more ease and directness than in a 2D format. It was also just fun and I loved working on a team for the photoshoots and shows. 
That first line was a concept piece exploring gendered expectations, specifically in the context of adolescent sports culture. I went into that project thinking a lot about this pressure to be very feminine even extending to places where I had hoped to sort of escape that. I think the final result grew to be a more nuanced consideration of my complicated relationship with femininity, but definitely not a rejection of it. 
Being out of an academic setting I feel there’s less pressure for my work to be strictly conceptual, but my pieces still have that foundation. With my garments now, I feel there is more room for play. Not to say that fashion is unserious!

How would you describe your aesthetic?
My aesthetic tends to be borderline renaissance fair, cyber fairy, vaguely goth, and tinged with 90’s nostalgia. I’ve always been very into textures found in nature like moss and plant/flower structures. As a kid I was really obsessed with creating different fairy characters that all had their own element and style that embodied different forces of nature. So I’d say my aesthetic has a definite element of fantasy.

Your garments are quite fresh and innovative, where does the inspiration for your collections derive from?
I really look up to designers who have a strong sense of artistic identity and craftsmanship, and who focus much more on those things than seasonal trends. A lot of my favorites are dropping the seasonal model altogether. I’m also immensely inspired and motivated by my peers – other small designers working out of their bedroom. The clothes I wore growing up are pretty influential as well.