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.
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The Steps We Take Collection 2019
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 […]
Butterfly Dress – Lupus Foundation Fashion Show Fundraiser
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 […]
Spring/Summer 2018: The Zippers vs Fringe Collection
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 […]
Salvation Army Garbage Bag Gala 2017 : The Trashy (bag) Collection
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.