Elle Gailey is a textile artist and designer who works with crafts techniques including embroidery, knitting, quilting, beading, crochet, and needle lace coupled with photographs and fabric prints.

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Elle finds her work grounded in a yearning to capture, archive, and appreciate moments; both moments in time and visual moments in the textiles she makes. She finds her inspiration in the memories of people and places she loves, and is fascinated by the way that memories and feelings inevitably change over time.

 

Elle has a background in fine arts, having taken courses at the School of Visual Arts in New York before taking fashion design and knit courses at Pratt, and Central Saint Martins. She earning her BFA with Honors in Fashion Design from Parsons School of Design and was featured in Teen Vogue as part of Generation Next class of 2024. Her work has appeared on Vogue Runway, Not Just A Label, the Parsons BFA Graduate Website, and as part of the 75th Annual Parsons Benefit Gala runway show.