About
I believe clothing is a kind of magic. Every morning, we choose a spell for ourselves. That spell may be one of comfort, sensuality, athleticism, professionalism, invisibility, holiness, or simply survival. Clothing allows us to shape how we move through the world, and that act of self-expression is one of the fundamental ways humans distinguish themselves from every other species.
My graduate work was an intensive study of proportion, movement, and the relationship between clothing and the body. I focused particularly on fitting larger women, whose bodies often fall outside standardized sizing systems and whose experiences reveal just how limited conventional approaches to fit can be. Working with these women has been both an education and a privilege.
The sheer variety of women’s bodies, combined with the vast history of fashionable silhouettes, makes fitting women far closer to an art than a science. Fitting requires observation, intuition, empathy, and respect for the individual wearer.
My work asks me to understand not only garments, but also the cultural histories embedded within them. Clothing has long been used to shape, idealize, objectify, value, and discriminate against women’s bodies. For me, this knowledge is not merely academic. My role is to place modern women into the clothing of other times while ensuring they still feel supported, expressive, and fully human within those garments.
At the center of my practice is the relationship between actresses and the clothing they wear night after night. I strive to create costumes that do more than visually communicate character or period. I want performers to feel enhanced, protected, and understood by what they wear. Costume, at its best, is collaborative magic between body, fabric, movement, and identity.