Maxine Roeder is a fashion designer specializing in eco-effective couture, evening wear, and luxury ready-to-wear fashion. She is drawn to fashion for its expressive and emotional depth and its potential as functional, wearable art—viewing it as a lens through which to explore the beauty, tension, and fragility of nature and the human experience.
Maxine’s pieces highlight and reinvent the body form by combining traditional silhouettes with unconventional shapes and unique details. Her signature garments feature distinctive textile manipulations, intricate embellishments, and various dye techniques to evoke vulnerability, strength, and beauty. To explore emotional nuance, she contrasts opposites—joy and sorrow, beauty and decay, structure and deconstruction. Her process merges conceptual thinking with instinct, using organic draping and freeform experimentation to shape sculptural lines and silhouettes that balance structure with flow.
Traversing both the scientific and emotional, Maxine’s work draws on her background in biology to visualize the beauty, mystery, and challenges of the natural world. Many of her designs respond to environmental crises, using the emotional and visually evocative power of fashion to make these concerns tangible.
Principles of sustainability drive both her creative approach and material choices. She incorporates sustainability in multiple ways—from using specialty eco-friendly or deadstock fabrics to patterning and draping in ways that minimize waste. Textile scraps are thoughtfully saved and upcycled within collections, contributing to lower-waste garments. Maxine works with principles of circularity, repurposing textile waste from past or current collections into new designs. She also sources scrap, surplus, and vintage materials to create unique textiles and embellishments that elevate each piece.
Maxine believes in creating unique garments that last beyond trends. She integrates principles of modularity and convertibility in select pieces to extend their wearability. She aims to narrow the gap between couture and sustainable fashion, applying couture principles and techniques to transform waste materials into something unique and beautiful.
Ready-made, one-of-a-kind garments—often crafted from scrap or recycled materials—are available for purchase when in stock. Maxine also offers custom designs on a limited basis for projects that align with her creative practice and areas of focus.
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