My journey into couture began long before I touched a needle. As a child, I spent hours designing dresses for my paper dolls, a foreshadowing of the atelier I lead today. But as I grew older, I followed the expected path. I went to Assumption College and finished my degree in Advertising. Surrounded by an environment of high-end taste, my innate drive to create refused to fade. With no formal training, I sat at my grandmother’s sewing machine and created my very first dress for a friend's 18th birthday. I fell in love with the craft so deeply that I enrolled in Slim’s Fashion and Arts School, purely for the joy of it. I attended college classes in the morning, and while still in my uniform, spent my afternoons studying the rigorous discipline of garment construction.