
Growing up in a musical household, Atias said he always wanted a creative career.

“A big thing that we like to focus on through every collection is learning new and innovative ways to sew with techniques that we didn’t know before,” Atias said. “It’s rooted from that person who was interested in garment-making and in those techniques that allow for the construction and the foundation of garment-building, which grew into this large industry that we now call the fashion industry.”Īs owners of Attachments, a clothing brand aimed at innovation and raising awareness of social issues, Atias and Barnea said they merged their strengths to create pieces that push limits. “Fashion is rooted in craftsmanship,” Barnea said. Designers Yoni Atias and Omer Barnea said they agree. Fashion has less to do with what people see and more to do with its creation, Rudd said. Whether it is through sewing together an old pair of jeans and a quilt to make a good-as-new denim jacket or sketching on canvas sneakers, creativity has no bounds when it comes to fashion design, Rudd said.įashion is much more than clothes draping people’s bodies - it tells a story, brings people together and expresses creativity in a way everyone interprets differently. “I think it’s a really effective way to stand out when you wear something that really feels like yourself, or wearing something that you made, or added some flair to,” Rudd said. She said the merchandise at the store inspired her to make some of her clothes more unique - often through adding her own designs to clothes to give them a story. Rudd works at Res Ipsa, a one-of-a-kind boutique in the Malibu Country Mart.

With clothes scattered across her bedroom floor and splatters of paint still drying on her now one-of-a-kind pair of jeans, senior Lawson Rudd prepared to debut her newest display of art.
