Paris of Appalachia™
Clothing Brand
Paris of Appalachia emerges from Pittsburgh —
a city shaped by extraction, production, and consequence.
Steel, coal, rail, and river built systems that continue to move the world.
Industry remains present, visible in infrastructure, labor, and routine.
This project operates within industrial memory —
layers of work, exposure, and environment carried forward.
Soot in brick. Heat in steel. Residue in air and water.
The imagery reflects that condition.
Eyes strained from labor and vigilance.
Warning symbols, machinery language, and distortion pulled from industrial systems.
The weeping eye appears as pressure made visible.
Fatigue. Exposure. Inherited damage.
A body responding to its environment.
Color comes from lived conditions:
soot black, furnace rust, concrete gray, river-dark green, dulled hazard yellow.
Tones shaped by contamination, wear, and time.
Paris of Appalachia records a culture formed through sustained pressure.
Aesthetic sharpened by repetition.
Expression shaped by survival.
Everything begins at ground level.
Some elements surface immediately.
Others remain embedded, waiting to be uncovered.
