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Clean and Reset Day!Sure it's a chore but it's one that simultaneously indicates "job well done" and "next up is....."
08/28/2026

Clean and Reset Day!
Sure it's a chore but it's one that simultaneously indicates "job well done" and "next up is....."

Nothing makes me feel happier and more joyful than this! It's why I keep punching!!
08/28/2026

Nothing makes me feel happier and more joyful than this! It's why I keep punching!!

The Midnight Oil is being burned. Pulling an all-nighter to finish this dress for a beloved client. It's been a long whi...
08/27/2026

The Midnight Oil is being burned.

Pulling an all-nighter to finish this dress for a beloved client.

It's been a long while since I've stitched and created through the night.

Anatomy of an Arsenic & Black Lace gown.I'm assembling a gown that was cut before the Pandemic. I decided to run one up...
08/15/2026

Anatomy of an Arsenic & Black Lace gown.

I'm assembling a gown that was cut before the Pandemic.

I decided to run one up to be sure I still know how. It's a complex garment that takes my trainees a day to make. At full speed and concentration, I can assemble 20 im a 10 hour day. Mind you assembling the dress is about 5% of creating one.

It occurs to me that I should capture the whole process on video to do one of those sped up assembling something reels....hmmmm?
Would anyone enjoy seeing it from concept to consumable?

AhhhhPutting the Arsenic & Black Lace patterns on the table for the first time since 2018. It's like having an old frien...
08/11/2026

Ahhhh

Putting the Arsenic & Black Lace patterns on the table for the first time since 2018.

It's like having an old friend for coffee. My heart warms to see them, I'm excited to visit and catch up with them.

I'm cutting the gown from a new lace which means that it's not the same old grind.

Like a friend who's been away, the lace will tell me a new story, I'll come to a deeper understanding of the dress.

The Client needs the dress for her niece's formal wedding. What a privilege to dress one of Detroit's illustrious Painters.

A simple ink wash rendering of fabric I'd draped across an old display mannequin and where my mind takes that through va...
07/11/2026

A simple ink wash rendering of fabric I'd draped across an old display mannequin and where my mind takes that through various extrapolations.

I think this idea will show up in the collection that I have been gestating for a bit over a year now!

Tools of the Trade. Nothing pleases me like working on stuff for clients.
05/19/2026

Tools of the Trade.

Nothing pleases me like working on stuff for clients.

05/07/2026

Regarding The Met Gala 2026:

I understand the desire to boycott this year’s Met Gala. When Jeff Bezos becomes part of the public face and financial machinery of fashion’s most visible night, people are right to ask what kind of power fashion is celebrating, whose labor made that spectacle possible, and who gets left outside the velvet rope.

I also understand why people still showed up.

Fashion is art. Costume is art. The Met Costume Institute matters. The preservation, study, and presentation of fashion history matters. The work of designers, patternmakers, cutters, stitchers, beaders, stylists, dressers, archivists, tailors, assistants, cleaners, guards, handlers, and museum staff matters. Those people are not disposable because the money at the top is complicated.

So no, I do not think this is as simple as “attending is wrong” or “boycotting is performative.” Both responses can be morally coherent.

The boycott is important because labor matters. Billionaire patronage should never be allowed to launder exploitation or turn workers into invisible scaffolding for glamour.

The attendance is important because fashion still deserves to be defended as culture, craft, scholarship, fantasy, and labor-intensive art.

That is why I appreciated the mayor skipping the gala while using the moment to praise the workers behind fashion. That is the actual needle to thread. Critique the power structure without dismissing the art form. Challenge the money without erasing the makers.

Fashion has always lived inside contradiction. Beauty and brutality. fantasy and labor. wealth and hunger. handwork and spectacle.

The real conversation is not whether fashion matters.

It does.

The question is whether the people who make fashion matter too.

And they do.

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