Where You Go to Live

Back view of garment. Fully fashioned full-length ivory knit dress with long sleeves. A line of buttons runs down the center of the back. The knit bodice is fitted. The skirt is flowing silk chiffon.

Fully fashioned knit dress with leather trim and hand-stitched details

Front view of model wearing a full-length ivory dress with long knit sleeves and a flowing chiffon skirt. Dress features tied and crocheted strips of chiffon throughout. The dress exposes the wearer's midriff. A leather bandeau was made to be worn under the dress to add dimension to the midriff cutout.

Bodice features a midriff cutout. Skirt is adorned with tied, crocheted strips of chiffon.

Close-up of dress, which exposes the wearer's midriff. The leather bandeau has hand-stitching details, buttons, and hand-stitched buttonholes.

Vegetable-tanned leather was hand-burned to create a worn look.

Model in crouching side-view pose wearing a full-length ivory dress with long knit sleeves and a flowing silk chiffon skirt.

All dress materials are biodegradable. Undyed merino and silk chiffon. Vegetable-tanned leather.

Model twirling in dress, allowing the silk chiffon strips and gathered skirt to swirl and show movement.

Dress was inspired by the soft yet strong landscapes and energy of the New Mexico desert.

Where You Go to Live explores the physical and metaphysical attributes of a 24-hour period in the New Mexico desert:
6 am - The wind sings to me, the air begins to warm, and each breath I take is given to me by the earth.

2 pm - The sun is at its peak, and everything is covered in an angelic brightness.

12 am - Once again, I am invisible — but I see crystal clear. All around me there is nothing, and when I close my eyes, I am back at the beginning.

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Model: Sofia Rothman

Sofia Rothman

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