Elle is a Designer/Performer/Artist/ClubKid who makes clothes and experiences for Bad Kids that want to run barefoot through the fields of technicolor. Her work is dedicated to all those Queer Revolutionaries who have died daring to be exactly who they are.

 

For every inch of her work that is informed by the technicolor tie dye daydreams, there is a mile of muddy Virginia creek water to swim through to contextualize her work. She grew up collecting other people's garbage from the local river, determined to  create something with it. She thinks on her feet, generating solutions and inspiration from the street, and also pulls from legendary skate heroes like Jason DILL and Mark Gonz who transform found imagery to tell whatever they see in and through the dirt. All of these childhood urges influence and mix with the support and expansion of her queer life through the introduction into the Chicago drag scene.

 

Elle makes clothes for Bad Kids that want to run barefoot through the fields of technicolor garbage. The work is not shy and the wearer rarely is either…but there is always room for vulnerability. This clothing is not made to be looked at, it's made to trample through adventures in.

 

Elle is a recent Graduate of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (BFA in Fashion Design).