Our Story

We didn't set out to start a brand. We set out to fix something that was bothering us. Five students. Five different minds. One shared discomfort that we couldn't shake. The kind that sits in your chest when you love something and know it's hurting the world. We love textiles. We love color and craft and the way a beautiful material feels in your hands. And we also know what the fashion industry does to this planet.

So we decided to do something about it. We are Seki, Mj, Heewon, Arda, and Olivia, five students with degrees in textile development and a shared dream that kept getting bigger every time we talked about it. We wanted to build something that didn't ask people to choose between beauty and conscience. Something that proved sustainable materials could carry real color, real boldness, real joy. Something that felt less like a sacrifice and more like a celebration.

We were inspired by a world we never got to live in. The dance floors of 70s and 80s New York. We weren't there. We weren't even close to being born yet. But something about those rooms reached across time and grabbed us anyway. That energy felt like the truest expression of what we wanted our work to feel like. We couldn't go back to that floor. So we decided to bring it forward, into the materials, the patterns, the pieces that now live in this collection. Bold enough to stop you. Honest enough to last. So we went back to the earth. Jacob's Wool. Mohair. Abaca. Fibers with real origins, real stories, real integrity. And we brought them somewhere they had never been, to the mirror ball, to the checkered floor, to spaces that feel like the best version of home.

We built 54th and Thread because we felt the guilt of loving fashion in a world that fashion is damaging, and we refused to just sit with it. We have our degrees, our hands, and the deep belief that the farm and the dance floor belong together. That the colors of life and the health of this earth were never meant to be opposites.