CREATIVE
Our eyes are inundated with visual clutter, day after day.
I am a Creative Director making visceral art for digital audiences, aimed at shifting systems and changing culture.
hand-cut collage , 2015 • a personal project featuring Mariacarla by Mert + Marcus for LOVE magazine, and imagery from a 1997 issue of National Geographic, pastel + acrylic
I Design Directed a popup concept, which offered 12 landfill-free alternatives to the top 12 home and personal care products.
My objective as Design Director of FUTURE PROSPERITY was to create a strong visual language to contextualize our curation to high-end clientele to convert them towards lower impact packaging and formulation.
Across a six month activation, we diverted over 1,023,860 plastic bottles from entering the ocean through partnership with Plastic Bank.
All imagery above Creative Directed and shot by me for Future Prosperity’s holiday campaign.
I am a founding partner of ANYBAG, a company on a mission to re:imagine waste. Since 2020, we have diverted over a million plastic bags from entering the landfill through our patent-pending circular system. The New York Times called us ‘Not Just ANY Bag’, and I certainly agree. As Director of Partnerships, I oversee and broker collaborative capsule collections between like-minded brands such as RALPH LAUREN. MADEWELL, ADIDAS, RIVIAN, NIKE and more. The above bag, a capsule collaboration between ANYBAG and N!GHTs SLOW FASHION FUTURISM, is made from black garbage bags captured from FABSCRAP’s warehouse in Brookyln. Materials sourced, designed and shot by me [ABOVE AND BELOW].
My product design experience goes back to my early days designing accessories for a Jenna Lyons-era J.Crew.
Explorations in lower-impact luxury, private collection I designeD in 2013 from Organic Hemp & silk charmeuse.
SAMPLES MADE BY EXPERT DRAPER PATRICK BOYLAN, STYLED on AINE O’GORMAN by LISA JARVIS AND SHOT BY Anthony Goblé. DESIGNED, CREATIVE Directed and cast by me.
utilizing rich textural elements that i curated and set-designed,
I created an elevated visual standard for Material Good’s presentation their world-class fine jewelry & rare watches.
for our Mother’s Day campaign, We gave the MATERIAL GOOD team’s children pages of cotton rag and neutral colored crayons and had them draw on them. we used their expressive scribbles as backdrops against the gifts for mom.
Creative Directed and styled by me. Shot by Jeremy Powitz.
Hand-cut and digitally collaged by moi for Lady Gaga, the Art Direction is meant to evoke courage in the face of long-suffering. , SHOT BY ELLE MULIARCHYK •2017
ALWAYS LOOKING FORWARD, [gouache on paper, 2021 with a brilliant cut diamond pendant by HATTE BANKS New York, illustrated and Creative Directed by me].
as a student at PARSONS, I used CUTTING EDGE recycled textiles and AIRDYE technology to create lower-impact luxury,
as featured in the windows of SAKS Fifth Avenue in NYC.
Parsons thesis collection | Creative Directed and designed by me + shot by ELIAS TAHAN, 2011
In 2011 there weren’t many recycled textiles on the market, I was sponsored by TORAY ULTRASUEDE to utilize their post-industrial recycled suede, dyed using AIRDYE Technology to avoid water waste, and have been dedicated to circular material innovation ever since. Styled, designed, and post-processed by me, shot by ELIAS TAHAN.
In SPRING 2023, I led a complete rebrand of global denim brand, PARKER SMITH.
crafted ethically in Los angeles from 100% deadstock yardage
Brand creative direction, Casting and Photography by me.
MAISON D’ETTO Discovery Set Campaign | Creative Direction, Set Design and Photography by me, 2022
D&G at night | Directed and Shot by me for Dolce & Gabbana at their New York Flagship store, 2022
Illustrated and ideated by me for Calvin Klien Collection, 2012 | marking a decade-plus of dreamy high fashion
A Self Portrait with Tulips on a scanner bed during an inner-spring metamorphosis, 2016 | I knit his body with my body, my most creative pursuit to date.
a Self Portrait in mixed mediums, a meditation on peace and equanimity.
Post Production clients include MAC, MAYBELLINE, VERSACE, Harpers Bazaar Vietnam, It Cosmetics, Little Rooms, and more.