Leana Sterlina

"We’re alive somewhere else
Far ahead of our time…
In a game of display we break in two"- Deftones.

The Deftones lyric, from their song What Happened to You, is evocative of Leana (Lea) Sterlina's raw sentiment built into her designs and the world of

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her startup brand. Sterlina seeks to capture and magnify the accents of human emotion underlying ornament.

She chips away the layers of ornament down to its rudiments and ensues to bridge emotion with necessity via multifaceted research.

Lea's stirring narrative coupled with compelling collaborations ultimately drive her collections.

-Call me emo, call me wanderlust, but I'm itching to live and let die-