Emerging Textile Designer
Fashion, for some, is an aesthetic practice. For others, it’s a tool for transformation. But for designer Cassia, fashion is a quiet act of remembering — a tactile language that communicates what the body cannot say aloud. In her work, garments become artifacts of feeling. Materials become memory. And design becomes a means of preservation — of past, of healing, of human experience.
Cassia’s entry into fashion didn’t begin with thread or runway dreams. It began with wood. “I started with product design,” she recalls. “It then evolved into fashion because I became fascinated by how the body interacts with structure.”
That fascination never left her. It simply expanded — from building objects to building spaces around the body, and eventually, to building stories from those spaces.
While she no longer works in traditional product design, the echoes of that discipline linger in everything she touches. Whether it’s creating sets and structures for her pieces to be photographed in or incorporating unconventional materials like metal and wood, Cassia builds environments as thoughtfully as she builds garments. When a location doesn’t align with her vision, she creates it — a literal and symbolic act of carving space for her work to exist as it was meant to be seen.
“I love taking research from my own memories and the human experience to strengthen this.”
Her brand isn’t about trend. It’s about emotion, time, and truth. “I would describe myself as a designer who explores the ephemeral moments of history,” she shares.
Cassia’s aesthetic feels tender and haunted — a visual poetry rooted in both personal reflection and historical reference. Her garments don’t shout. They speak — softly, honestly, and with presence.
That philosophy comes to life in her latest body of work, a collection intriguingly titled Garlic Socks. On the surface, the name is whimsical — even curious.
But underneath it lies a deeply personal story of healing. The collection draws from Cassia’s childhood memories of being treated with natural remedies — moments spent wrapped in warmth, trust, and tactile care.
It’s a love letter to the rituals of hydrotherapy, herbal medicine, and the ancestral knowledge passed down in small, private acts of protection.
“Garlic Socks explores my childhood memories of being treated with natural medicines,” she explains.
“I wanted to evoke that feeling of being surrounded by comfort within the bounds of natural healing.” In her hands, these memories become garments — visual and textural representations of comfort, fragility, resilience, and tenderness.
She weaves together nostalgia and research, childhood and history, personal softness and Victorian medical tradition.
Cassia’s creative process is as ritualistic as the remedies that inspire her. It often begins with a memory — something that lingers, loops in her mind, and refuses to be forgotten until it’s made real.
“A new project always starts with a memory or an interest that’s been circling my head,” she says. “And probably won’t stop until I do something creative with it.”
From there, she turns to books. Libraries. Not search bars, but spines and pages. “Research, research, research,” she laughs.
“Books give me a needed factual lens on quite a personal idea.” With her sketchbook in hand, she allows her thoughts to take form — in drawings, notes, fragments — gradually piecing together a garment born from both intellect and intimacy.
Among the works she feels closest to is a standout piece from Garlic Socks: a felted poncho made of Scandinavian goat wool. The material, chosen with precision, carries cultural and symbolic weight — a nod to medicinal wool, once believed to carry healing properties. The poncho is crafted through traditional felting techniques, bringing a sense of rootedness and craft to the piece. Paired with silk organza and glass beads, the contrast is intentional — softness meets translucence, protection meets fragility.
What grounds the work even more is her collaboration with memory itself. “It was a very personal subject,” Cassia reflects. “It involved a lot of talking to my mother — going back to those healing moments.” Her design becomes more than fashion — it becomes a living archive of matrilineal knowledge, of textures that once soothed, and of how the body remembers what the mind may forget.
Cassia’s work is intimate without being confessional. Conceptual without being cold. Visceral, yet incredibly composed. It’s the kind of design that lives longer than the season — work that asks you to look deeper, to slow down, to listen with your hands as much as your eyes.
In a fashion landscape so often obsessed with speed, spectacle, and surface, Cassia chooses the opposite. She slows the viewer down. She brings memory into the room. She dresses not just the body — but the feeling.
In the hands of Cassia, fashion becomes a quiet act of care, a healing memory made visible. And Garlic Socks is not just a collection — it’s an invitation: to reflect, to remember, and above all, to feel.
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