Nancy Stella Soto sees making clothes as an energy exchange. ⚡
The first time Soto realized that a garment could represent something beyond the thread it’s made from, she was in preschool and living in a garage with her mom, on a diet of tacos and mom-made outfits. “My mother would hem her garments. Then she would make me a small garment at the end of the cuttings. I remember just feeling like it was beyond special,” Soto says. “It felt really strong. It was very positive. And I’ve been wanting to maintain that feeling into adulthood, into old age.
Soto likes to shout out all the hands that touched each piece. She works almost exclusively with micro-businesses in Los Angeles, and she’s conscious of the amount of work that goes into each garment. “Whenever I start to make something, I do think about the cost and how hard people have to work and how much this thing is going to cost. So, I want it to be worth that,” she says. “I don’t want it to cost X amount just because it can. I want, I really want it to be worth that.
Soto is only interested in material that is “really spectacular.” Here, her colleague Rolas wears a Nancy Stella Soto leisure uniform and his own undershirts.
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