MFA Fashion Designer Mel Lamore’s debut collection is quiet, raw, and deeply personal. Built around their own experience with depression, the work is fragile and held together by a thread, draped with softness, and often on the edge of unraveling.
“It’s like it’s falling apart at the seams,” shared Lamore. Their designs feature hand-made thread mesh, delicate finishes, and a color palette of whites, slate grays, and washed periwinkle. “It wasn’t about fabric quality, really,” they explained. “It was more about how it feels. Comfort is really important to me.”
Lamore doesn’t follow a clean, step-by-step process. “I work intuitively but also as a planner, and it’s a very chaotic process,” they said. Lamore sketched loosely, draped with paper, built things up and tore them down again. “I tried to…
