This collection is adventurous and fun.

It was inspired by a collection of Tupac poems about a rose that blooms from in-between cracks in concrete.

Imagine walking down the sidewalk in a big city, like NYC, the concrete jungle.

Out of nowhere, you’ll stop and find a wild rose that grew in-between the sidewalk.

From crazy odds and the harshest of climates, it still bloomed.

It’s about unstoppable beauty and resilience.

We kept picturing this rose blooming, breaking through concrete, and it reminded me of a mirror breaking. 

We also created this collection in 2023 / 24 when I lived near Portland, Oregon—the City of Roses.

I loved visiting the many beautiful rose gardens. 

People in Portland are also usually good stewards to the environment. 

It rains almost every day all year. It gets gloomy and depressing. 

But it’s also why it’s so beautiful and green.

All that constant rain inspired me to create a rose that blooms after storms. 

It’s an environmental statement, as storms are getting worse due to climate change. Concrete is also a top contributor to global pollution and urban sprawl. 

So this collection was born. 

We started with a rose corset at the beginning with a gray multi-layered tulle skirt (the layers remind me of broken up concrete).

At the end of the lineup is a rose that “blooms” after rain, a thunderstorm, tornados, hurricane Katrina—a whole series of storms.

We also included two gowns, “fire and ice,” inspired by the Robert Frost poem. One is a wild fire printed dress. The other is our glacier inspired gown.

After these storms, and the rose blooms, there’s a rainbow.

We love printing nature photography and artwork directly on our fabric during construction—such as with the storm prints. 

I also love more subtle nature references, such as our wrapped dark blue tornado dress made from repurposed velvet.

We always use upcycled, recycled, organic and deadstock fabrics.

Like our Thunderstorm or our hurricane Katrina dress. 

At the heart of the movement, upcycling is about something thrown away—or “broken” and recreating it into something new, cool, unique and beautiful. 

At every show, models, customers, staff, family share their stories with me of storms they’ve experienced and what they went through. 

How many years it took their community to recover.

Especially the tornados and hurricanes.

Climate change has made storms more dangerous, frequent and impactful. 

I saw this in Gulfport, driving through New Orleans. 

Katrina alone, a category 5 hurricane devastated multiple parts of the South. It killed over 1300 people and cost $125 billion in restoration.

20 years later, communities are still recovering.

That’s one storm.

We want our clothes to bring people together over nature.

We believe we need to stop talking about the environment in terms of a culture war. These storms have a very real cost.

They impact us all globally.  

And we hope we can break free from this hell and find roses. 

That's why this collection stands for empowerment and the unstoppable beauty of nature.