A three piece look inspired by smoke jumpers & paratroopers consisting of a two-toned waterproof adjustable balloon sleeve top & adjustable front pocketed pants

Don’t look, you know you want too - a collaboration collection with other FIT designers.

Pants and apron designed and created by me.

Inspired by combining the simplicity of both structurual and free forming silhouettes.

A look from my deformities collection brought to life. This look was by far the most entertaining to create, since I essentially had to sew it to then simply just….destroy it. But by destroying it, I was giving it a new life with its beautiful imperfections. I used two tools for my deconstruction: my seam ripper and a ton of lighters. The different fabrics reacted differently to the tears and heat from the flames. The effects created different looks I worked to combine with different techniques to create my final look.

A bodysuit inspired by the jungle, its mesmorizing tree branches, vines, and their intriguing routes

In our world, transformation means a change of the form or nature of a thing or person into a completely different one.

When it comes to insects or amphibians, this transformation is called metamorphosis; the transformation from an immature form to an adult form in two or more distinct stages. As humans, we are able to change our “form,” every day. As these creatures transform and shed their skin, as humans, we can do the same with our clothing. Our clothing is our cocoon, our skin that sheds daily as we undress and dress again and again.

Ecdysis explores humans’ abilities to shed their own skin, step out of their cocoons, and become reborn with a fresh perspective each and every day through the garments in this collection.

Deformities are within…

Ourselves, our world, our reality, our society.

We live in a world full of imperfections working to become perfect. We are taught to ignore disruptive beauty, the beauty in the opposite of construction, the beauty in the imperfections, the beauty everyones works to be “perfect.”

La Tierra - a deformities capsule collection.

La Tierra means, “the land,” or, “the dirt,” in Spanish. As a capsule collection to Deformities, which embraced the beauty in the imperfections to our world, La Tierra continues the capture the magnificence of our world everyday, and the elegance in all of its flaws.

A Deformities top come to life paired with nude corduroy pants for a look inspired by the meanings of different shades of the color yellow

A mermaid style dress inspired by Madeleine Vionnet’s early designs

A handmade fluted bodice dress with floral accents

Culture, Diversity, Roots

Flow, Structure, Ruffles

New York is one of the world’s most diverse places. Fashion is diverse.

It is time for our culture to meet our visionary.

A collection inspired by my family’s Salvadorean heritage.

FURY - wild or violent anger; violence or energy displaced in natural phenomena or in someone’s actions.

FURY IN FIRE

This collection uses the silhouettes, colors, and fury in fire to replicate the beauty amoungst the desctruction in flames.

Corriendo - an athleisure collection.

There is beauty in everything. There is beauty in randomness. There is beauty in unpredictability and oddness. There is beauty in the anticipation of not knowing, and beauty in the act of knowing.

There is beauty in flying, soaring high like a bird with no destination. There is beauty in freedom, so allow me to run free.

A two piece look inspired by Japanese architecture mimicking water movement

Charlotte…a duster made for your average upper east sider

A look inspired by the multiple interpretations of the color blue.