Clothing designer Gary Graham launched his first collection of women’s apparel in New York City in 1999. Respected for its exquisite detailing, sophisticated craftsmanship and historical erudition, the line was sold at select luxury retailers worldwide (Barneys Japan, Dover Street Market, Trois Pommes Switzerland) and beginning in 2009, at the Gary Graham flagship retail store in downtown New York’s Tribeca neighborhood. In 2018, Graham relocated to rural Franklin, New York and his eponymous brand was reborn as GaryGraham422. Production has been reconfigured as small-batch fabrication, featuring unique interventions to one-of-a-kind
fabrics. The studio’s rural locale has inspired new historical narratives and encouraged experimentation with rare antique textiles, while expanding production of Graham’s signature custom print fabrics and custom engineered jacquards.

Raised in Delaware, Graham studied painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art and earned a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He was honored as a CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund finalist in 2009 and received the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Legend of Fashion award in 2010. Outside of designing his own line, he has created textile collections for commercial interiors fabric manufacturer Pollack NY, designed a collection of single piece one-of-a-kind women’s wear in a collaboration with Asian retailer Joyce Hong Kong, and has licensed two seasons of a ready-to-wear line to online retailer Amazon.

His work has been exhibited at Hancock Shaker Village, the Peabody Essex Museum, and the American Folk Art Museum, and is held as part of the permanent collections of the Peabody Essex Museum, the American Folk Art Museum, the Phoenix Museum of Art, and the Rhode Island School of Design Museum.