 I've been commissioned by 1800 tequila to create a refined ensemble from raw pieces for the red carpet. I have one more piece to make, which is the coat. The day of the show, there's going to be lights, a bunch of people, and the heat will be omnipresent. So what's important is that the coat is breathable. I think this may be the hardest fabric for me to find. Some people who do what I do, they have great archives. When I go to flea markets, if I see anything that I can gain motivation from, I'll pick it up and it usually ends up in one of these boxes of stuff. This Parisian raincoat double breasted, heat sealed, and what happens is whenever projects such as this come along, I can then say, I think I have something that I may be actually able to use for an outfit. I found this at a thrift shop. It had these numbers on it, like when a parachute inflates, it has the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, all the way around it. And it said, you know, NASA space program on it. I was just like, this is at a second hand shop? Where do parachutes go to die? Like I never thought about that. It has an amazing breathability because the parachute so naturally it has to breathe. So this is perfect. The robe is one thing. Char lapel, all black, has the belt. So what I'm going to have to do to this is I'm going to have to take it apart, and after I take it apart, I'm going to die each one of these panels. It is my hope that this thing doesn't disintegrate, that it stays together and that it just takes the color. The people who designed that parachute, I guarantee you had no idea that some 60 years later it would be used on a red carpet. When finding materials, there's no place that I won't look because you never know when you're going to find something at a junkyard, if need be, at a second hand store. It's great to find beauty in unexpected places. Those little things add a world of value to every single piece. To take something that is raw and then refine it into something that somebody would wear, there's no better feeling.