Growing up, my dad would take me and my sister to the landfill. Though it smelled awful, it was also magical because we could discover all this great stuff people were throwing out. We would collect them and create new things, like a go-cart. One time we made a decently functioning shower for our tree house. This was how I got into sustainability, but I specifically chose to pursue it in fashion because I love how it’s a movable artform that people display on their bodies, like walking exhibitions.

My collection ‘Dissect’ is driven by my desire to showcase the beauty and potential of waste — as that old landfill showed me — and by the desire to create that meaningful, wearable artform that people would proudly choose to exhibit on their body.