I am a fashion designer and artist critically exploring the intersections of fashion, art, and storytelling executed through a unique combination of concept driven and hand crafted items. My work can be sickly sweet at times, feminine and yet oddly playful with gender. And always includes my clever feminist analysis in everything I touch.
The project, “Sometimes It’s Hard to be a Woman”, addresses issues of domestic violence and dating based sexual assaults. It’s a bit of a social statement, with a lot of beauty, and metaphor and fashion. It’s elegant and heavily hand embroidered, but disquieting through the environmental set up.
This project is working to establish a new way of approaching a fashion lifestyle brand that aims to empower. By straddling both my fine art leanings and launching an elegantly detailed branded line I am creating work that inspires along side items that can be integrated into your visual life.
The recent surge of #yesallwomen tweets is a newsworthy sign of how ready we are to tackle issues of sexism on a large scale again.
Thanks to the Brooklyn Arts Council grant I was able to begin this project, but my appetites are huge and it requires much more to make it a reality. Help me bring this conversation into fashion and art through my unique handcrafted feminist fashion installation!
