Collection 1, born from elegant styles of attachment.

In this second collection, I am thinking about connection, exploring how we attach and attract beauty, to others, for others, to and for the garments which embrace us. As I have come to understand in my quest for elegance, aesthetics cannot fully bridge out understandings. Elegance is not merely aesthetic, but rather lived, relational between bodies and tangible experiences, living between the wear and the worn, the people and the clothes. Just as our silhouette is able to speak to out deepest needs for clarity, for security, for shine, through elegance we reach for comfort, for closeness, for the assurance we exist. My gradients in this collection do not simply transition between colors; they map the spectrum of human attachment—from the anxious pull of uncertain love to the secure embrace of trust realized over time.

I might be chasing at an angle, seeking something more complex, more layered, more burdened, but elegance never changes, it remains true to its path, never wavering as we around it might. How elegant it is to have someone who knows how to love without losing themselves, who can attach without clinging, who can remain beautiful even in their vulnerability. I have designed these pieces to reflect the four attachment styles. I am not a therapist, I am a designer. But through the emotional architecture my lines create, I see the potential for these subjects to overlap. At this point, I will refrain from writing elementary cliches and long winded forms of self flattery, such that “The secure pieces breathe with confidence, their gradients flowing like exhaled relief. The anxious pieces hold tension in their transitions, beautiful but restless, seeking resolution. The avoidant garments maintain their elegance through distance, their gradients cool and controlled, protecting even as they attract. And the disorganized pieces—perhaps my most ambitious—capture the push and pull of conflicted desire, gradients that seem to argue with themselves yet somehow achieve harmony.” If you expected this section and miss it, drown yourself in the aforewritten lines and be gone with it.

To me, this collection is meant to speak to how we dress ourselves emotionally, how we choose garments that either soothe our attachment wounds or celebrate our capacity for connection. Simplicity remains my north star, but now it is simplicity that serves psychological truth rather than merely aesthetic preference. If done write, simplicity will always be a pillar and the singular cornerstone from which elegance sprouts. I am not interested in fashion as costume or fashion as armor; I am interested in fashion as translation, and in that translation, aspects of expression—though not too much.

I will not lie to say I know why people choose a piece of whatever over another for the sake of echoing a thought process I can never explain, but rather I want to stress the existence of my side as a creator, that has turned these idea which spoke to me specifically a tiny bit more within reach for those who might come to find themselves in tune with. I want people to choose these pieces not just for their beauty, but for their emotional resonance, for the way they hold space for the complexities of human attachment while maintaining the refined grace that is my signature.

This collection acknowledges that true elegance must account for our messiness, our need, our beautiful and imperfect ways of loving. It is elegance that includes rather than excludes, that honors the full spectrum of how we connect. I am no longer content to design for the person who has transcended need; I want to design for the person who needs beautifully, who attaches with grace, who finds in my garments not just elegance, but home.