10/22/2023 0 Comments Stained glass dress met gala![]() In 2016, while working at the Reebok store in Union Square, Ekimian met with higher-ups for Adidas Wrestling and explained to them why women’s singlets needed an update. Like many of her accomplishments, this came to be not because opportunity knocked, but because she created a door where one hadn’t existed. “She has a very infectious spirit,” said Jarva Weiss, who asked Ekimian earlier this year to create her dress.Įkimian, a Russian-American who was born in Washington, D.C., and spent many years in Egypt, a self-described “hugger,” exudes none of the pretension or anxiety one might expect from a 19-year-old thrust into the big leagues, though designing this dress is not her first higher-profile project.Įkimian, a wrestler who won the 2015 women’s wrestling state championship with the Maryland National Team, recently designed women’s singlets for Adidas Wrestling. “Unstoppable,” “passionate,” “self-reliant” and “talented” are all words Jarva Weiss, a lawyer for a midtown firm, used to describe Ekimian in just a matter of minutes. The scene conjures a fairy tale, but Ekimian is no princess waiting patiently for life to happen. They hatched the week she constructed the final garment. The neckline also subtly evokes a cross.Īt Jarva Weiss’ final fitting, two weeks before the event, the gown was draped on a paisley armchair where Ekimian knits and had for weeks watched two mourning doves incubate their eggs in a nest on her windowsill. ![]() The pattern reminded Jarva Weiss of leaded glass, similar to stained glass but without color, and the roping hints at details on priests’ robes. It was custom-made for Sandra Jarva Weiss, the wife of Daniel Weiss, president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and it nods to this year’s theme: “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination.” ![]() The gown - sleek and full length, made from black and blue brocade with rope details, a drop waist and an elaborate neckline - is not for just anyone, but then again, not just anyone is invited to the Met Ball. “You don’t have to be anywhere special to make something you’re proud of.” “I had to move my furniture to lie down the fabric to cut the circle skirt,” Ekimian said, punctuating the sentence with a booming, easy laugh that peppers all her statements. Late last month in Ekimian’s apartment, which faces the building’s interior but is flooded with light, paper patterns were strewn like blueprints, fabric panels were stacked and muslin toile hung on the back of her bedroom door. First in the mind of its designer, Katya Ekimian, a 19-year-old Parsons School of Design student, and then from yards of fabric previously piled in bags in a corner. NEW YORK - In a sixth-floor walk-up apartment in the East Village of Manhattan, in a space no wider than a train car, a Met Gala gown was created.
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