This upcycled denim coat was created for Mindy Jo Miller to wear at the United States of America Ms. for America Pageant in San Antonio Texas. The outside of the Coat is patchwork denim from old jeans and the collar and cuffs are strips of denim, unraveled and then washed […]

To Celebrate Earth Day, Pittsburgh hosts an “Ecolution Fashion Show” every year (with the exception of 2020 due to the Covid 19 Pandemic). This fashion show is a design competition that invite artist from many disciplines to create a pieces of wearable art made out of upcycpled and unconventional materials.

In the summer of 2019, I had the opportunity to work with the Office of Public Art, Bike Pittsburgh and the West End Community Group to create a Public Art event celebrating Pittsburgh’s City Steps. I invented 5 other Pittsburgh Fashion designers to participate in the fashion show on the […]

I was invited to participate in the Lupus Foundation’s Fashion Show Fundraiser, where the theme of the event was “the butterfly”. I wanted to keep the silhouette of the dress simple, a corseted circle dress, so that all the focus would be on the butterflies that werplaced on wire that […]

This collection I was inspired by two of my favorite things in fashion, zippers and fringe. I am amazed by zippers, how they work, what a great engineering feat to invent them, and how much we take them for granted, I wanted to explore different ways to use zippers, from […]

This would be my third year participating in the Salvation Army’s Garbage Bag Gala, and instead of competing in the design competition, I showed a special showcase of eight looks completely constructed out of garbage bags and other unconventional materials.