I AM KATHARINE A designer and student at Moore College of Art and Design I use the medium of fashion to explore identity, beauty and strangeness My work is an invitation and a portal for others to experience the worlds I see The mysterious, bizarre, surreal, and macabre are brought to life and to splendor through maximalism and meticulous artistry Dramatic and expressive color, layered textures, rich velvets and leathers, graceful flowing silks. Damasks and custom dyes, elaborate beadwork, hand painting, and embroidery. Each piece is devotedly crafted with the guilded touch of fantasy, toeing the line between reality and the elegantly absurd.