I design garments meant to live with their owners for decades.

But my work begins long before I start cutting into fabric or leather.

I’m interested in clothing as one of the most intimate systems we live inside.
Something that protects the body, communicates identity, and connects us to long-standing global networks of materials, labor, and culture.

Most clothing today is designed for speed and replacement.

My work explores a different orientation to clothing and considers what happens when we design garments and build our relationships to them with longevity in mind.

My path into this work wasn’t linear.

I enjoyed making things and working with my hands from a young age, but the focus was primarily on studying classical piano, eventually to the graduate level. It was a discipline that demanded precision, repetition, and long hours in isolation.

Playing an instrument is a concrete action in the 3D, but the music itself is abstract. Classical music maybe especially.

Over time, a tension grew between that abstraction and a desire to engage more directly with the physical world. I wanted to make a more direct contribution to the quality of our interactions with our environment, both in terms of our collective humanity and of specific cultures.

I love how specific artefacts are unique to certain geolocations and environments.

I was drawn toward the systems that transform human perspectives on life into tangible forms, where materials, structure, and human behavior intersect.

I finally embraced the shift and formally studied apparel design.

I started out wanting to make fancy dresses for the red carpet. But what began as an interest in making beautiful clothing gradually expanded into something larger. As I learned first-hand about the social, environmental and political realities of the textile and apparel industry, sustainability became a priority. But, sustainability is inherently at odds with the deeply entrenched high-volume production and consumption economic model of the apparel industry.

Thus, my work has developed to be a bridge, a translator. I help re-orient people to the realities of the built environment they’re wearing every day to increase how they value those realities, by way of increasing self-trust in peoples’ choices.

Today, my work sits at the intersection of craft, sustainability, and cultural inquiry.

I design custom outerwear using materials such as wool, leather, and hemp. Garments intended to be worn, repaired, and lived in over many years.

Alongside this practice, I research and write about the psychological and cultural forces that shape how we consume clothing: why we buy, why we discard, and what allows certain pieces to remain part of our lives for decades.

Increasingly, I bring these ideas into public conversations through speaking and writing, connecting clothing to broader discussions about sustainability, the built environment, and the future of consumption.