Introducing ThreadMark-
Couture That Carries a Story
A signature process for story-rich couture, designed to honor legacy, healing, and meaning.
What is ThreadMark?
ThreadMark is my signature design philosophy, where each garment becomes a vessel of story. It is my couture process for designing garments that carry meaning. Each piece is more than fabric- it's a legacy woven in stitches, born from memory, love, and personal story.
Are you dreaming of a garment stitched with meaning? Whether it's a wedding dress, a remembrance suit, a debutante gown, or a piece passed down, ThreadMark begins here.
Click the stories below to experience ThreadMark in action-or reach out to begin your own.
The story of this dress begins in the late 1800s.
I was commissioned to create a garment inspired by the great-grandmother of the current president of a local home decor fabric company—its original founder—during her travels through Europe. The dress was designed to honor her legacy and reflect the spirit of that era for display during the Spring 2019 Furniture Market.
I was given five fabrics from the company’s current collection, along with prints of artwork by an Italian artist whose work had influenced the founder's taste. After studying the art and doing further research, I determined that the silhouette would best represent an 1872 Bustle Day Dress.
The final ensemble includes:
An underskirt
A skirt apron
A bustled overskirt
A lined riding jacket with couture finishes
The jacket features a ruffled neckline, triple-tiered sleeve hems, and fabric-covered buttons. Both the jacket and overskirt are trimmed in a lush wide-wale corduroy—a standout texture among the fabrics I was given. It was a joy to work with such beautiful materials, and to weave history and legacy into every seam.
The Reese's Green McGillicuddy Dress Suit
It was the Best Overall winner in the Threads Garment Challenge 2021 The Details of the lines and silhouette are born from my default inspiration of the 50's. The color and certain details are inspiration by my little boy Reese. You can read more about the garment and challenge winner by clicking here.
Falling Into Winter Lucille
This coat was the Most Holistic category winner of Threads Garment Challenge 2023. It was inspired by two dimensional art from my youngest son Reese. We took a painting class together two days before he went back into the hospital for Leukemia. The painting was of Birch trees in the fall. On the outside of the coat I hand stitched silk blend yarns into the hem to mimic falling leaves and had both of our paintings printed on satin for the lining. My painting is on the inside back as if to support my little boy. His painting is on the inside front. You can read more about it by clicking here.
Midnight Gold Remembrance Dress
This dress won Best Overall winner for Threads Garment Challenge 2024. The main inspiration for this creation stems from Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation. I darkened the blue to a midnight blue and used a more antique gold to lean more into Childhood Cancer Awareness. Once again, I used lines of my natural inspirations from the 50's and "I Love Lucy". It is a one-piece dress with a faux jacket wrap right front, a circular overlay, and embellishments consisting of gold metallic tulle, sequins, glass beads, and feathers. You can read the article by clicking here.
"The Grand Masked Ball of Versailles"
This piece was created for a delightfully unique occasion: an all-night Baroque masquerade held annually at the Orangery of The Chateau de Versailles. Amanda commissioned me to create a historically inspired justaucorps (a style similar to an 18th-century frock coat) for her husband, Marc, to wear to the Grand Masked Ball alongside their friends.
She selected a floral-embossed satin jacquard for the outer layer, paired with a blush champagne silk lining. To elevate the design further, she chose an embellished lace—delicately adorned with sequins and beads—which I carefully cut apart and appliqued along the front opening, collar, front pocket flaps, and across the back where the details cascade gracefully toward the hem.
From the photos, I think you'll agree—he looked striking.
A Parisian Confection
A ThreadMark Garment for Kravet × Brunschwig & Fils
This garment was created exclusively for an editorial photo shoot for Kravet, in collaboration with Brunschwig & Fils, and inspired by the world of Ladurée.
The initial narrative centered on shared French heritage, decadence, and playful luxury—imagined through the eyes of a supremely elegant little girl and her equally tasteful French poodle, discovering a new boutique on a morning walk. The setting was conceived as a jewel box: refined, whimsical, and full of quiet delight.
Designed to serve that story, the dress was constructed as a couture-style, single-purpose garment intended solely for the camera. Its tiered silhouette, decorative ties, and trim accents were developed to photograph with movement and softness, allowing the fabric’s narrative to unfold visually rather than functionally. Structure was used only where necessary, prioritizing proportion, drape, and editorial presence over longevity or wear.
This piece is part of ThreadMark, my body of work dedicated to story-driven couture garments—created to interpret a specific narrative, moment, or setting through form, textile, and craft.
Whispers from the Garden
Whispers from the Garden is the first bloom of a deeper vision—The Garden He Wanted to Grow. Inspired by a fleeting roadside field of poppies and cornflowers, she reflects the quiet persistence of life that continues to rise, even after loss has reshaped everything. Beneath her ivory houndstooth surface, a hidden undergarden begins to stir—soft color, movement, and memory pressing upward. What begins in structure slowly yields to something more organic, more alive, revealing that what is truly loved does not disappear… it grows again, in new and beautiful ways.
The Ascendent: Where the Night Ends
It began with an invitation to Arti Gras 2026—black and white, creative all over—but the design would not come until the story arrived. During a Sunday sermon, the image of darkness trembling at the name of Jesus took hold, and from there the vision unfolded: thoughts of light, of heaven, of Reese—of angels, and feathers as if fallen from their wings. Once the story was clear, every design detail followed. Structured black layers and gathered tulle form a foundation of resistance, including hand-cut edges and singed organza—uneven, jagged, and unsettled—to reflect the nature of darkness. Above it, a circular white taffeta overskirt—reinforced with horsehair braid—moves as structured softness, not without strength, but with a quiet authority greater than what lies beneath. Feathered textures and hand-finished details carry the narrative forward, allowing light to expand gracefully, unapologetically. In The Ascendent, darkness does not disappear—it yields. The light rises, overtakes, and ultimately defines the silhouette, capturing the moment where night ends and something luminous begins.
Bouclé of Poppies
Inspired by postwar fashion. Made unforgettable by one little voice.
Created for the 2018 Threads Challenge of the Association of Sewing and Design Professionals, Bouclé of Poppies began with a challenge inspired by fashion of the postwar years. I interpreted the theme through the polished glamour and feminine silhouettes of the 1950s.
The black-and-white bouclé was an unexpected discovery in a small Virginia fabric shop. To support its weight without sacrificing movement, I backed each skirt panel with silk organza. Inspired by Lucille Ball’s iconic wardrobe, the design features a split collar, three-quarter-length raglan sleeves, a full godet skirt, but updated with a playful high-low hem.
Black and white have long been my signature colors, enlivened with pops of red. Here, those “pops” became hand-crafted poppies.
Each flower was individually formed from layers of chiffon and black tulle, finished with a floss center and a faceted black bead. Every chiffon petal was carefully singed over a tea light before the flowers were assembled and sewn onto the dress by hand.
The poppies cascade down the main skirt panels in an ombré arrangement. As the wearer moves, the unadorned godets open between them, allowing the skirt to bloom with fullness while preserving the falling-flower design.
Although unforeseen circumstances kept me from presenting the dress at the original challenge, its most meaningful moment came later that year when I wore it to a country-club gala benefiting my youngest son’s elementary school.
The finest compliment did not come from a judge, another dressmaker, or anyone at the gala. It came from Reese.
He looked at me and, in his sweet little voice, told me I looked beautiful.
That was the dress’s finest moment—and it remains mine.
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