From the Studio

I’m in the process of sifting through almost 1,700 pages of journal entries from 2022–2025. I embarked on the journey in January of this year, after finishing a race of sorts: transitioning my designs from my hands, sewing one at a time, to a team in India.

Manju, Meera, Malo, Manju, and Aisha. My hand-drawn patterns, digitized. My love of fabrics evolving into sourcing handmade textiles in another country.

As I started reading, I took notes. I began a document titled “thesis,” with the idea of synthesizing the entries into usable lessons, and...

I'm here with some things I need to say - and haven't gotten around to.

Yes, there are new, delicious skirts. But some of you already have delicious skirts that need to be transitioned into colder weather, or simply dusted off while we figure out how to wear them again.

Enter: Consignment Styling Appointments.

60 minutes for $60, with $30 of that applied to a future purchase.

It's you, me, and the racks.

You'll learn things about fibers. You'll watch how and why I'm choosing what I choose. You'll start to understand...

My fashion show was last Saturday. When the dust settled, I had laundry, menu planning and groceries to take care of. Then a couple of days of personal/doctor appointments - some fun, some not so much.

Then back to work, to reset the salon and organize the chaos from the weekend.

But there was something I couldn’t put my finger on till midweek. And when I did name it, I was surprised to see it: sadness.

The event was wildly successful. I hoped we’d sell 1 Marimekko piece - we sold more...

Chaos. I really dislike it. I dislike that right now, in the third week of summer, stores are clearing their shelves of everything summer and dumping it into the clearance section so they can move on to back-to-school and then fall/holiday. In stubbornly opposing this rhythm, I am entering the chaos.

But in fact, I have picked a job, at a time in history, that sits right on a fault line.

In 2013, I would frequent a shop on Fifth Avenue, nestled among the very most prestigious stores and across...

If you've ever wondered about my design process, here's a great lil look inside. I wrote this stream of consciousness, then plugged it into ChatGPT. The response gave me further insight into my role and its strengths and challenges. Enjoy:

What I wrote:

I have only ever seen recalls of product in one light, as representative of low quality product.

I’ve been making clothes for 20 years. It is just now, in this moment, occurring to me, that recalling a product is indicative of its quality, not lack thereof.

I am taking one product - an elastic waist skirt -...