SILPHIUM is the Brooklyn-based studio practice of designer Onea Clare. The studio emphasizes re-worked vintage and antique materials as well as natural fibers and dye processes.
The line was born out of the designer’s affinity for objects and our abiding relationship to them; the manner with which we conjure memory and attach sentimentality. SILPHIUM is a project in care, endurance and ephemera.
Onea Clare was born and raised in the LES and continues her family's legacy of garment and textile manufacturing.