Inspiration
I am inspired by women. Women who know who they are, and who think, create and produce to give their best to the challenges around them. Women who are confident, willing to take risks and assume responsibility for themselves and others. Women whose inner beauty shines in everything they do. These are the women who inspire me to create clothing that showcases their inner strength and beauty, regardless of age or body type.
I love working with each client to select the right design, fabric and color and then shaping the garment to achieve an overall effect. Inspired by many designers of the twentieth century, I favor structural approaches to each garment and its relation to the body and movement. Drawing from classic designs, I highlight garment structure through stitching, piping, and braiding, often created from the fabric itself.
Since my childhood, textiles have been an irresistible inspiration, whether a rustic, hand-woven strip of hemp or jungle vine, a meter of gold-embroidered designer velvet discovered in a Paris street market, or shimmering silk brocade emerging row by row from an antique wooden Jacquard loom in the Damascus market. I prefer to work with natural fibers—wool, silk, linen and cotton.
The consummate skill required to fabricate and deliver clothing of superb quality is both inspiration and challenge, whether it means putting in a hem with hundreds of tiny hand-sewn stitches, or completing a perfectly constructed bound buttonhole on a vented jacket sleeve.