Brenna Gentner

Brenna Gentner

Collection

Bio

Born and raised in the heat of the Sonoran Desert which explains my passionate personality. Making, Growing, and reaching for the sun in the heat of it all, I moved to New York City to study to pursue my fashion design degree. Coming from a blue collar family out in the desert, my parents taught me to work as hard as often as I can, and to love even harder. Besides my professional practices, I am an avid learner and life enjoyer as I love reading, cooking, gardening, sports, and spending time with the wonderful people in my life.

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Image: Desert Bloom is a thesis collection that examines the strength and ingenuity of the western pioneer women, more in particular mothers: resourceful, self-reliant, and tethered to land and family. These women used clothing and fashion not only as a means of survival, but transformed desolation into everyday glamour.
Image: By reclaiming softness as strength, the work challenges dominant power structures and redefines femininity as a form of presence, care, and connection, positioning fashion as a means of storytelling, identity-making, and cultural transformation grounded in craft and intentional living.
Image: My collection embodies the SOF mission of sustainability by using all inherited, collected, recycled, and reused materials- I did not buy any materials directly for this collection.
Image: For the modern woman still connected to her wild roots. Dedicated to my mom, the woman who taught me to grab life by the reins and tug harder. Oh, and my father and siblings who taught me what to do when life bucks back.