Curator of Fashion
Born in Tehran during the Iran–Iraq War and raised in Los Angeles, I am an artist, poet, and designer whose work bridges ancestral craft, multisensory experience, and collective healing. Raised in a lineage of makers — my grandmother and aunt sewed every garment I wore as a child — I continue this tradition by transforming my own paintings and drawings into textiles, garments, and immersive installations.
My fashion practice, which I call textile-poetry, carries memory, resilience, and synesthesia into tangible form: each fabric a poem, each garment a vessel for story, each collection a multisensory landscape of sight, sound, touch, and scent.
I am also the Founder and Chief Creative Officer of Mothers of Matter INK, a nonprofit dedicated to participatory public art and community ritual. My work has appeared internationally, weaving ancestral knowledge, ecology, and collaborative making into living archives. At UCLA’s World Arts & Cultures MA/PhD program, my research traced how art becomes sanctuary in times of joy, war, displacement, and cultural blossoming.
As Curator for Fashion on the Executive Board of JTTS, I am developing Threads of Synesthesia: Textile-Poems & Wearable Memory — a program that complements FashionTech with craft-based sensory fashion. It envisions runway-exhibitions where garments are paired with poetry and scent, workshops that invite neurodiverse participants to translate drawings into textiles, and catalogs that double as poetry books and audio archives.
My work is at once intimate and expansive — born from the memory of war, shaped by ocean light, and carried forward as a vision of fashion not as consumption, but as communion: a bridge between body, memory, and the vast universe of human perception.