World Hope Forum: Heads Upriver - Gary Graham

Gary Graham is an artist who approaches fashion design as a material culture of elegance and decay. His work often combines historical narratives with fictional characters, blurring distinctions between past, present, and future in mysterious and unexpected ways. For over 20 years, Graham worked in the fashion industry as his own label, Gary Graham. Known for his engineered jacquards, knitwear, intricate detailing, embroidery, and his own signature prints, Graham’s ready-to-wear collections have been featured in stores such as Barneys New York, Barneys Japan, Dover Street Market, If Boutique, Trois Pommes and boutiques across the globe. Each iteration of Graham’s distinguished brand and aesthetic efforts to forge new realities through process, collaboration, style, and drama.

Graham’s latest project GaryGraham422 is a site-specific, multidimensional operation stationed in Franklin, NY. Launched in 2018, Graham designs intimate collections drawn from local histories, using vintage and antique textiles as well as jacquards and wovens from domestic mills. In 2020 he collaborated on a capsule collection with Joyce Hong Kong resulting in one-of-a-kind pieces all manufactured in Franklin, NY. As a studio, storefront and living space, GaryGraham422 is the physical and conceptual reincarnation of the Gary Graham brand and a reflection of his aesthetic mission: looking back to look forward.

www.garygraham422.com