From Brooklyn, With Sun: Style from the City to the Sun

This collection is the most personal thing I’ve ever sewn.

It’s not just a capsule wardrobe, it’s a love letter to leaving.

From Brooklyn, With Sun is a story told in fabric, from cold sidewalks to warm skies, from subway grit to sea breeze. It’s the story of a girl who packed up her life, her cat, and her sewing machine and drove across the country in four days to begin again.

I lived in New York my entire life. Brooklyn was my pulse, my pace, my playground. I knew its corners and seasons like the back of my hand. But I also knew, deep down, I’d leave one day. That I’d find my sunshine somewhere else.

Florida called me early. As a kid, it was the magic of family vacations. As an adult, it became the dream of warmth, windows, and a quieter kind of energy. So in the span of ten days, I found an apartment, bought my first car EVER, packed up my life, and hit the road. All in the name of reinvention. The concept of New Yorkers going to Florida is nothing new, it's a pilgrimage that most make at one point or another. There are deep parallels between the 2 states and also extreme opposites.

This collection captures that contrast.

• New York’s boldness, structure, and Florida’s ease, color, and air.

• The urgency of change. The softness of surrender.

From Brooklyn, With Sun is about movement, physical, emotional, creative. It’s a tribute to transformation, and a celebration of what happens when you leave everything you’ve ever known to chase the version of yourself you haven’t met yet.

The NYC Subway Jacket

The NYC Subway Jacket is a love letter in stitches to the city that raised me. For 20 years, the F and G lines carried me to school, to work, to everything that shaped me. This customizable, color-blocked jacket lets your story ride along with mine; your lines, your stops, your journey. The back features a “dark mode” subway map, a reminder that no matter how chaotic the path looks, it still connects. Everyone has a path in life. New Yorkers? We have subway lines.

The Subway Bell Bottoms

The Subway Bell Bottoms turn movement itself into a canvas. Athletic flares become oceans and skylines, with the NYC subway map rippling along the hems like waves carrying the city on their back. They’re part streetwear, part seascape, part tribute to the hidden rhythm of New York, the city sits in the sea, and its veins are underground.

The MetroCard Totelette

The MetroCard Totelette is both homage and resurrection. Shaped like the card that every New Yorker carried (and cursed when it didn’t swipe), this bag is personal for me, the one thing I never left home without. Keys and phone? Forgettable. MetroCard? Never. Though the MetroCard itself is gone, this totelette keeps it alive, functional, playful, and a reminder that sometimes the smallest objects carry the biggest stories.

The Florida 3-Piece

The FL 3-Piece is the start of my Florida era, inspired by Taylor Swift and her ode to eras themselves. It’s made of an athletic bandeau, matching shorts, and a lightweight jacket, all patterned with

palms in purple hues. Sporty, bright, and unapologetically fun, this set is the uniform of someone stepping into new sunlight, claiming a new chapter, and refusing to leave style behind just because the zip code changed.

The Welcome to Florida Cami

The Welcome to FL Cami is vintage tourism kitsch reimagined into fashion. Flowing and playful, it carries the “Welcome to Florida” board of tourism artwork across its fabric, a nod to the postcards and road signs that greeted countless visitors. Flowy, funky, and flirty, it’s a wearable billboard that says both “I live here now” and “Florida’s never looked this fresh.”

The Gator Dress

The Gator Dress began as an ode to Florida iconography, a simple orange t-shirt dress stamped with a gator. But it accidentally sparked bigger conversations: Gators in Miami Dolphins colors? A rivalry in fabric form. Native Floridians immediately asked, “Who are you repping?” The answer: me. At heart, I’m still a Giants fan. This dress became proof that fashion doesn’t just start conversations, it interrupts them, laughs at them, and makes its own team.