Statement

Restraint in pursuit of refinement is not a denial of expression, rather a disciplined manipulation of line, space and color, creating and balancing aesthetic and functional composition using beautiful fabric as my medium and canvas, shaped and tailored into a clean silhouette with form and flow, designed to be art and strategy, I call suiting.

Story

Growing up in the Bible Belt South, in Little Rock, Arkansas, where church and a summer job selling suits were my introduction to sartorialism, a life of refinement was spiritual. Religiously, my parents said, “there is a time and place for everything”, “have your own style”, “make a good impression”, “do right”- maxims that shaped me as a designer and influenced my mission to refine the culture of cool through style and substance, connecting fashion and good.  The same rules of conduct echo in my cause of appropriateness and advocacy for sartorial freedom, as I mediate between society’s formal dress codes and individual’s freedom of style with a tieless POV that is more a social protest than a fashion statement.  It is with great passion and creativity that I solve the relative overdressed-underdressed conundrum rooted in the cognitive dissonance between conformity and individuality. For a greater good, I’m compelled to address the connection between worker’s passion and fashion, which has led to creating appropriateness workshops and assessments, and partnering with organizations to help students and professionals tailor their Superpower Style™.   At the heart of my creative practice are my Virtues of Cool: passion, purpose, style and substance, which serve as my moral compass in everything I do and represent.