Garments with a Pulse: A Conversation with Beloved Fashion Designer, Evan Clayton 

An exploration of early inspiration, gothic influences and his latest collection

By: Amanda Albert

Fashion, at its highest level, is wearable sculpture. It is an art form designed to move the body and the mind, in tandem.

Because it resists practicality, it is often misunderstood as excessive, theatrical or, frankly, weird. What it truly resists is complacency.

Evan’s work belongs to this lineage of fashion as cultural intervention. Each collection is built as an emotional architecture rather than a seasonal offering designed to dress trips to the grocery store.

His garments carry narrative, emotion, defiance and devotion with weight meant to endure. On the runway, the story each collection carries unfolds as performance art.

In an era that largely flattens fashion into trend cycles, Evan insists on depth. He designs not to decorate the body, but to transform how we experience it.

We had the pleasure of sitting down with Evan to discuss his latest collection, what came before and what we can expect next.