Olivia Inoue: The Alchemical Creator of Sustainable Desire ♻️✨

She does not simply construct clothing, she makes wearable poetry from the discarded, the forgotten, the unloved.

With her ink-stained fingers, Olivia Inoue was born under a Kyoto moon (her mother was a calligrapher, her father was a punk tailor, only he didn't do 'punk' his way). Olivia learned early in life the beauty of contradiction. At fourteen years old she took apart her school uniform to make a kimono-punk-jacket mix - and got suspended for it. The principal called her work "disruptive." Her friends called it genius.

Today, her atelier became a temple of eco-eroticism: silk dyed with beetles 🪲; corsets made from fishing nets 🎣; gowns crafted from fabric that dissolves in rainwater (this is performance art, darling). Critics whisper she is "too avant-garde for sustainability, too sustainable for avant-garde" but Olivia? She lives in the hyphen.

Her current obsession is "Ghost Fabric" - a textile crafted from recycled wedding dresses and it hums when you touch it. “Every stitch has a heartbeat,” she explains as she preesses the seam that previously held someone’s "forever."

When she is not seducing editors at Vogue or diving for lace in the dumpster, Olivia practices kintsugi with a broken mirror ("scars are simply glittering fault lines"💫) and collects tears in vintage perfume bottles (*"the best glue to use is tears" 💧).

Caution: Her creations will have you question whether you own your clothing - or whether they own you.