“It never really came to me until I went to art and design school — your art and design is a reflection of who you are.

I am trying to figure out who I am. What I’m trying to say, how my work is me, and how I am my work, in a non-capitalist way… I’m still trying to find that voice. I’m only a few years into this!”

“There is an innate pleasure in doing something well, and the beauty of slow fashion is that you can have that gift, that pleasure of creating something and feeling good about it. It’s not a factory where you pass it on to someone else and you never see the final piece. At the end of the day, you have something that you made and you can look at it and feel good about it. You know, especially if you put the right intention into it. I love that.”

“My purpose of it all is that I really want to show the other side of the coin when it comes to fashion and garment making — I’m not saying this is anything new — but I can show some perspective and be a little more nuanced in the way I do things, because of how I want to do it, rather than how I want it to look.

It's easier for me to have a grasp of my purpose when I’m focusing on how I want to do things rather than what I’m doing. How has a better impact than what.”