About Arie

I’m a fashion designer originally from Arizona, now living and working in New York City. I studied fashion in Florence, Italy and in NYC, where my practice was shaped by both classical technique and experimental, city-driven making. Moving between these environments grounded my work in construction and history while pushing me toward clothing as concept, performance, and narrative rather than purely commercial product.

My work often lives at the intersection of costume and fashion, drawing from underground nightlife, punk aesthetics, ritual, and drag. I’m especially interested in garments as tools for transformation—pieces that function as armor, disguise, or spectacle depending on context. This approach has led me to create looks for themed underground raves, runway collections, personal art projects, and one-off sculptural works, some meant to circulate and others designed to exist only for a moment.

Alongside design, I work as a stylist, with my pieces pulled by celebrity stylists and worn in high-visibility performance spaces, as well as hands-on experience in music videos, indie films, photoshoots, and album artwork. My work has been featured in publications through both editorials and interviews focused on my process, allowing the ideas behind the garments to be as visible as the clothes themselves. Across all of it, my practice remains rooted in storytelling, reuse, and the belief that clothing can hold memory, tension, and identity all at once.