About
Robbyn Eyvonne is a designer and seamstress whose dream is to bring more pleasure, beauty, and satisfaction to wearing clothes.
She wants to help people discover the joy of having a few well-crafted garments that are part of everyday living.
The idea of “an essential wardrobe” is a response to her observation that the staggering negative impact of the fashion industry on Mother Earth and our relentless urge to buy and throw away clothes stems from a rupture in our relationship between our bodies and our clothes. In large part, poorly constructed and poorly fitted clothes. She believes that when we experience our clothing moving with and holding our body, we feel good. And so, we become attached to them. We are much less likely to throw them away. In fact, we are more likely to take good care of them and even have them mended when necessary.
When clothes do not fit, and there is little imagination involved in desiring them and obtaining them, our relationship to clothes becomes fraught. We become anesthetized, not only to our clothes, but to our bodies, and ultimately to our world.
The remedy is to become aesthetically alive to the world. To be aesthetically alive to the world, we must do more than love the world. We must be IN LOVE with the world!
What better place to cultivate that love affair than with our own bodies and the clothing we wear.
Robbyn graduated Summa Cum Laude from the Portland Fashion Institute with a degree in Fashion Apparel. She is also a Jungian psychotherapist and dream analyst, an artist, gardener, avid knitter, and blessed grandmother living in Portland, Oregon with her husband, her granddaughter, Penny the chicken, and her dog, Sunny the Wookie, who is a fluff bag full of mischief and love.
