ABOUT KAREN LUKACS
As a 'slow fashion' pioneer, Karen Lukacs harnesses over 20 years of textile experience to embody the role of maker-activist. Her work merges art, design, and handcraft - all the while elevating fashion to an act of advocacy.
Karen performs a modern-day alchemy in her Tucson studio, where designing and making take on a larger and sustaining context of timelessness and intentionality.
ABOUT KAREN LUKACS STUDIO
Reconciling the
global injustices
of fast fashion.
Circumventing outworn practices of the textile industry and excessive consumption patterns, Karen Lukacs eschews the conventional notion of clothing-as-commodity. Abandoning political burdens in sourcing new materials - labor abuses, unsustainable growth, damaging environmental impacts, and other misdeeds of the industry - she meticulously selects local materials en route to the landfill. These rescued treasures are then migrated into the studio's zero-waste design focus, where they are transformed into artisanal collections of her Sustainable Eco Fashion.
Curating time & texture, fueled by a generous, controlled abandon.
Karen Lukacs crafts livable, wearable, three-dimensional sculpture. Her work is thoughtfully shaped and skillfully constructed, merging traditional handcraft techniques with a modern design aesthetic. Each piece speaks of new beginnings to otherwise discarded garments, imbibed still with the spirit of initial creation. This maker's hand instills a quality and a story to her work that is meant to enrich in untold ways.