ABOUT ME
MFA Textiles '23
BFA Fashion Design '21
Parsons School of Design NYC
Introducing myself is perpetually difficult. Whenever asked: “Where are you from?”, I struggle to answer to my satisfaction. I am one of the odd, rootless people of a new generation: my mother grew up in Brazil, my father in Austria, and I, around the world. My cultural experiences are fragmented, yet some passions have remained consistent in my life: an inherent love for music (playing music from an early age), humanities subjects, and hands-on creativity.
Though I now find myself in the design world - someplace between fashion, textiles and art - I have attained a unique, expansive perspective formed by the multiple disciplines I have had the privilege of exploring. It continues to shift and establish itself, seeping through my work. This circuitous journey has been a blessing. All the while, my English accent remains in permanent limbo somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean.
SKILLS
Concept Design & Research
Textile Development
Knit Design
Advanced Machine Knitting
2D/3D Ideation
Pattern-Making
Sewing Construction
Polyglot
My more academically-focused upbringing informs many of the questions that my work addresses. Literal displacements have imbued in me the instinct to collect elements from my various surroundings. From this, I gravitate towards critical design methods, vulnerably juxtaposing these ideas through textiles and silhouettes. I recently developed a particularly deep interest in knits; thoroughly enjoying playing with the idea of a knit binary code, and trying to intercept it.
I encourage discussion around the undefined metaphors generated from these approaches, questioning societal structures and human-material relationships. My hope is that, from such conversations, people may discover new ideas for themselves (based on their own experiences) and question collective social attitudes.