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Had to run it back… Shogè models @abdoulaye_mg @madisonne.taylor creative director: @upholsteredstudio photography: @theoutlandishexperience starseeds

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From Kente to Ankara , Every Fabric Tells A Story
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Garments & Accessories:
@upholsteredstudio 🪡 🧵
Purse: @stockandbelle 👜 ✨
Photographer: @theoutlandishexperience 📸

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Effortlessly.. Model: @madisonne.taylor styled and designed by: @upholsteredstudio Photography: @theoutlandishexperience studio: @stockandbelle

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To capture the essence of raw materials,melanin, and creative 🪄 magic.. Esoteric Fashion Collective Model: @abdoulaye_mg
Headpiece/wardrobe: @upholsteredstudio , #textile couture
Photography: @theoutlandishexperience Studio: @stockandbelle

#EsotericFashionCollective #UpholsteredStudio #TextileCouture #EditorialFashion

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Esoteric Collective…. BTS Photographer: @theoutlandishexperience Models:@temarawilliamson @abdoulaye_mg @madisonne.taylor Creative director: @upholsteredstudio Studio: @stockandbelle

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We’ll let the frames do the talking…

Designer @upholsteredstudio
Photographer @theoutlandishexperience
Models @abdoulaye_mg @temarawilliamson

#model #photoshoot #editorial #fashion #memphis

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#Memphis to the 🌎
Check out the BTS footage of an incredible shoot, with amazing ppl. Standby for the project drop.

Models: @temarawilliamson @abdoulaye_mg
📸: @theoutlandishexperience
🧠❤️: @upholsteredstudio

#explore #photoshoot #fashion #editorialshoot

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ANNEALING

A study of what happens after heat, of bodies altered by pressure, memory, and rupture.

This exhibition is about what stays after that. There is a dynamic strength that can remain.

Opening Friday

September 4
6–8 PM
UAC Tiny Gallery

Curator: @khara.woods

Studio Assistants: @mudworkz4u

Jonathan Bishop @Lubin

R. Bernard Allen @jahrbusinesssolutions

Garment development and textile collaboration: @upholsteredstudio

Would love to see you there!

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The Architecture of Being Seen

I almost did not post this.

Not because I doubted the work, but because it is not the standard practice of Soren Studio, and I wanted to protect that.

In collaboration with the Brooks, I created the centerpiece for their Met Gala Watch Party, answering this year's theme, "Costume Art, Fashion Is Art."

And that is the question I kept returning to. If fashion is art, then what is a garment really doing? It is not decoration. It is composition. A garment holds line and weight and color the way a painting does, only it moves, only it breathes, only it becomes part of the person wearing it. Art you can stand inside.

So I built two figures. Two truths. Because a woman is never only one thing.

One crowned in gold and roses, rising out of a garden. One wrapped in emerald and soft ivory, quiet and modern and turned slightly away. One from history. One from now. Both of them art. Both of them true.

For me, art and fashion have never been separate. They have always lived in the same room, spoken the same language, shaped each other. And some time ago, before Soren Studio, I also worked in costume, with fabric in my hands, learning how a garment can build a character before a word is spoken. That chapter never left me. This project invited it back into the room.

None of this would have taken shape without art consultant @khara.woods who I collaborate with often and trust deeply and @upholsteredstudio, who translated it into cloth. I asked for something both abstract and literal. Upholstered Studio made it real.

I was stretched. I was excited. I made something I am proud of.

So here they are. Both of them. Both true.

When did you last do something outside what people expected of you? 👇

The Architecture of Being Seen

Brooks Museum of Art

May 2026

#ArtAndFashion #MixedMediaArt

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