Julia is an Artist, Fashion Designer and Teacher based in Boston, MA. She received her BFA in Fashion Design from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in May of 2020. Julia is currently working as the Interim Art Education Studio Manager at MassArt. She is also the Workshop Tutor for the Fashion Department and Fashion Faculty for Youth Programs at MassArt. She has overseen the MassArt Curating Fashion Archive, interned at Primark in visual merchandising, and interned at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee in the costume shop.
Her work focuses on incorporating couture and traditional artistic techniques into modern day clothing. She specializes in hand techniques such as embroidery, beading, smocking, fabric painting, and leather work. Much of her work is inspired by her love for historical clothing and sustainable fashion practices. She also enjoys traditional drawing and painting, and likes to incorporate them into her design work.
Sustainable Practices
Many of the youth classes that Julia teaches focus on reconstructed fashion: a sustainable way for beginner students to be introduced to design and fashion techniques by creating new garments from existing pieces. In her own work Julia’s sustainable practices focus on materials. She often creates garments using scrap pieces of waste fabric from other projects, material from used and worn garments, and dead stock material (excess that is unused) from other designers. All leather that Julia uses is dead stock or scrap waste material, if not both.
Julia has also experimented in mixing her own alcohol inks by soaking wood shavings from woodworking waste and other plant matter in rubbing alcohol.
As an BFA student, she participated in MassArt’s first Bio-design class, a collaboration with the Bio Design Challenge and worked in a group to make a vegetable leather out of cantaloupe rinds: CantaLeather.
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Patchwork denim bodice and belt made out of scrap denim from used worn denim garments, and yardage waste, and recycled buckle. Skirt made from dead stock cotton. This piece was shown in the MassArt Studio Manager show.
