The Notion of Luxury examines how fashion shapes desire, identity, and value, layering textiles, print, and metal to explore opulence, labor, memory, and what is considered precious.
acrylic monoprints on paper and tissue (image transfers from D’86/J’87 edition of Vogue Paris), chalk pastel, foil, pen, Harris Tweed, silk dupioni, thread, hand-fabricated sterling silver and cubic zirconia button, vintage crystal button, mounted on cradled board
24″ x 30″ x 1.5″
2025
The Notion of Luxury explores how fashion shapes our desires, our identities, and our sense of belonging. The work is built on monoprint image transfers on tissue from a 1986/87 issue of Vogue Paris —a formative artifact in my own understanding of glamour and aspiration. Layers of prints, fabric structures, and stitched surfaces evoke the labor behind beauty and the tension between surface and substance.
Harris Tweed and dupioni silk spiral across the composition, conjuring both opulence and effort, while a hand-fabricated sterling silver and cubic zirconia button and a vintage crystal button—“notions” in sewing terms—evoke glamour, history, longing, and shifting ideas of what is considered precious. The piece asks: What constitutes luxury? What is it worth? And who is it for?
Layering time, texture, and meaning, the work moves between fashion and art, past and present, pleasure and critique. It invites viewers to look closely—and consider what has been stitched, hidden, or left behind.
