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Elizabeth Robinson Ayer
A girl with many dreams, I've spent the last decade exploring how close I can get to distant horizons while wandering through seas of curiosity. Fashion has been my creative outlet for as long as I can remember, and what fun it's been. I made my first dress as an independent study project in 7th grade, designing and sewing my middle school graduation dress a year later. When I was 16, I ventured solo to Paris where I watched the city win the World Cup while simultaneously sneaking into Fashion week and even posing for the paparazzi once or twice. My consequence for sneaking into Fashion Week was scoring an invitation to tour a private atelier by a Fashion Week designer himself. I wore the same design I wore to the atelier to the Dior Jewelry house, also scoring me a private conversation with the in-house designers. I wore another one of my designs into Giorgio Armani on Rodeo Drive and one of the salesgirls liked my dress so much I made her one in her size when I got home and sent it across the country, per her request.
Right: An Original I wore to a portfolio critique for FIT in NYC, Junior Year.
My first website (love-lizzie.com) was a solo high school experiment that resulted in 10,000 views in its first year or so solely by being in my Instagram bio. More recently however, as I was exploring the depths of college and earning my BA in Markets and Culture at Southern Methodist University, studying what deems a nation as innovative, the presence and lack of business ethics throughout the US, and my favorite, Contemporary Sociological Theory, my love for design took somewhat of a hiatus. Since my days at Parsons School of Design and Parsons Paris, my audience has shrunken mainly to other students on random Friday and Saturday nights curious enough to ask where my dress is from, to which I responded, "I made it!" This site is my updated version of (Love-lizzie) to put on the resume and to keep my small fanbase of very good friends updated on my creations as I venture out into the real world and discover new passions, in an original every now and then.
The most important lesson I've learned through this journey may save anyone reading this some heartbreak, and like most things, it is simple: If you love something and are good at it, consider keeping it for yourself, and if you're lucky, for a few fans who are fans because they are really good friends. Sometimes life's greatest love stories are mysteries to everyone else.
The below video and article feature me and my designs, filmed and written by classmates.
