I was born in Tulsa Oklahoma and was quickly shuttled off to San Diego California by my parents in hopes of a better life.

My father was a Honky Tonk pianist and played a number of musical instruments. I was highly influenced very early on by that world of flash and glitter during Country and Western’s hay day. My Dad’s proudest moment in music was meeting Hank Williams Sr. before he passed. He shared that story with me later when I had grown older. Every Sunday we would watch all the syndicated Country Music shows. So we watched on a regular basis musical artist like Porter Wagner, Dolly Parton, Buck Owens and the hosts of the who’s who of the Grand Ole Opery. So I got a major dose of some of the finest custom made clothing of those times. Later, when I was older I used clothing to date a year a movies was made in. It was a game the family would often play while watching a feature to guess it’s production date. This is where I learned I had a fine eye for detail and design.

I was always naturally curious and always proactive in exploring everything that fell under my field of interest. Politics, religions, horticulture, music, story telling and painting. When I entered Long Beach State I proved to be an innovator among my peers. For one class I created a demographic study of costume and clothing choices in Los Angeles underground club scene that caught the interest of my instructor who would have included it in her latest book on clothing and fashion had I been in her class the previous semester. I was a major advocate of men wearing skirts as adgit-prop and gender role modification long before it hit Christian Lacroix’s catwalk. I helped define and influence those looks between 1984 and 1987. I had a notable influence on Alexis Arquette among many other cross dressers in the underground club scene. I was part of a cabal of artist that would eventually bloom in many successful directions. Most notable of these in costume world are Nancy Steiner and April Napier.

Besides, the features and shorts I’ve been on in a design capacity I was consulted by designer Anna Wyckoff on 40 years Barbie retrospective for Mattel. I am very knowledgeable of period and contemporary clothing and fashion. I have a large variety of experiences, strong understanding of the Fundamentals in construction and design with a keen eye for telling a story within the realm of costuming. Years of experience will allow me to create a uniques look that will clearly define that story. I burn brightest when I crystalize the story’s vision in wardrobe.