Once upon a time I thought that my fascination with costume and fashion design began in 1999, when some friends got me involved with historical re-enactment, but as I reflected on my life as a whole I found that my interest began much earlier.


I loved playing dress-up as a child and I dressed tiny plastic babies in flower petals from my aunt’s yard. I begged my mother to teach me to sew clothes for my dolls, though I had little patience to learn at the time. As I got older I started making my first clothing sketches. At 15 I was enraptured with the graphic novel ElfQuest by Wendy and Richard Pini and enlisted my mother to help me sew the costume of one of my favorite characters.


It wasn’t until 2000 that I really became fascinated with historical costume. I began to research everything about historical costume, but particularly the 16th century. I finally had a reason to sew, and no longer living near my mother, I used the basic concepts I knew to teach myself. I began making my own patterns and sewing for everyone I knew.


In the summer of 2006 I went back to school to get my Associate of Arts in Fashion Design at FIDM/ The Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising as a stepping stone to a career in Costume Design.


But, I think most importantly, I have always loved stories and the characters in them.

Costume is really about the characters. Their costume tells a story within the story; rich or poor, history or fantasy, modest or flamboyant.


My goal is to put my costuming skills to work for me in the film industry. In our modern age, film is the way to tell a story to the largest number of people and I want to costume the characters for those stories.