Article: The Story Behind the Print - and the Designer Who Brought It to Life
The Story Behind the Print - and the Designer Who Brought It to Life
I've been thinking about this design for a long time - longer than most people would guess. When I was young, I used to wrap bandanas around my Barbie dolls, loving the way the fabric draped and the versatility of the basic dimensions. About ten years ago, when I first started seriously exploring the idea of my own fashion line, that memory came back to me. I thought about the scale of that little bandana against the doll, and I wondered: what if it were full-sized? What if a person could wear that same idea?
I pulled together elements from different bandanas I loved, piecing together a vision, and then I went searching for the right designer to help make it real. I looked through many, many designers, each with their own strengths. But Carolina Diaz was, hands down, the right choice. Her grasp of scale and pattern - how a print moves and reads across a scarf - was exactly what this design needed.
Working with Carolina has been a genuine pleasure, and I'm looking forward to creating more designs with her in the future.
About Carolina
Carolina Diaz grew up in a small town in northern Colombia, surrounded by tropical landscapes and indigenous craft traditions - an environment that shaped her lifelong instinct to turn her surroundings into design. She's studied and worked across Colombia, Peru and the United States along the way. Her work blends handmade technique with digital tools, always anchored by a love of nature and bold colour. Carolina holds an MFA in Fibers from Savannah College of Art and Design and a Bachelor of Graphic Design from Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana in Medellin.