ABOUT

Pretty Torn Studio is comprised of designers and makers, Kayla Antonevich and Alexa Kudrak. Housed in the vibrant, multi-functional Alberta Studios, we offer a hybrid retail storefront and active sewing studio. Our mission centers around sustainable fashion, community skill-sharing, and local creative collaboration.

We want to reconnect people with the practice and art of making clothing through tactile experiences.

  • Kayla Antonevich

    Kayla is the founder of 0 mph, a slow fashion brand focused on upcycling secondhand materials into new garments and accessories. In an aim to reduce textile waste, she is challenging conventional ideas around fashion and sustainability.

    After working in various sewing production roles and providing custom garment work and mending services in the Chicago and Boston area, Kayla participated in several collaborative retail pop-ups with other independent fashion designers. this inspired her to create a similar, more permanent space here in Portland.

    See 0 mph

  • Alexa Kudrak

    Alexa is an apparel and accessories designer and pattern maker. She has a passion for the problem solving and technical elements of design that allow craft to shine. She has worked for several small businesses in Chicago and Portland as a skilled sewist, product developer, and designer.

    She now channels this background into her own slow fashion brand, gottlin. for this project she uses found heirloom textiles to make new clothing, encouraging the wearer to consider the past lives of the materials

    See Gottlin

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