Stingray S/S 2022
The year is 2007 and you plunge your head underwater with eyes open for the first time, despite a lifelong fear of drowning, only to discover a tropical, kaleidoscopic paradise and the striking elegance and movement of stingrays moving beneath you on the ocean floor.
The year is 2021, and you wonder, why has this enigmatic creature resurfaced in your mind now, so many years later? You’ve been reflecting lately on the maneuvering and adapting we do as individuals in the world, especially as immigrants and children of immigrants. In the depths of grief and processing change, creativity somehow still emerges.
Stingrays are powerful, graceful creatures that symbolize adaptability. For me personally, they have become a motif that I associate with overcoming fear, with transformation and discovery.
There is an element of camouflage in the new digital ombré print, as dragonflies appear first while stingray shapes are created in the ground of the pattern. Across cultures and time, the dragonfly signifies self-realization and moving past illusion--an ideogram of the raw and powerful journey towards enlightenment. The elegant stingray remains unchanged, always moving with the change of tides. Perhaps its capacity to be lethal keeps it free and adaptable.
This collection showcases a plant-dyed, regenerative cotton custom yarn-dye, flower-dyed recycled cotton jersey, and touches of shisha (mirrorwork), lurex and hand-beaded shimmer. I’m thrilled to be working with Oshadi, a cooperative in Tamil Nadu that is bringing back the ancient Indian way of farming cotton and plants. They have created these garments from beginning to end: by growing, spinning, weaving, knitting, dyeing, to then cutting, sewing, and finishing.
Summer crochet dresses are knit with 100% tanguis (native Peruvian) cotton, and the new straw bags were handwoven by Rosario, a talented woman I met in Oaxaca, Mexico earlier this year. The accessories project is the beginning of a collaboration with Hacer Común, an inclusive design center and social impact project in the Oaxacan community of Zimatlan. It seeks to promote the values and growth of the community by connecting local artisans who work collaboratively to develop everyday objects that revalue tradition.
Stingray S/S 2022 Collection
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Photography
- Enmi Yang
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Styling
- Ashly Tsao
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Creative Director
- Sheena Sood
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Makeup
- Will Metivier
- Randy Rosenthal
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Hair
- Chika Nishiyama
- Lurissa Ingrid
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Nails
- Cedelia Matthews
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Producer
- Juliet Savittieri
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