A return home can be a new start, an ending, and a rebirth all at once. 

The people and the places we call “home” are where our hearts live, and Chagrin Falls is forever at the heart of C.F.P.S.

Emily and I went to the river, and let the sounds and sunlight lead us on this shoot.

How inspiring to be face to face with something much older than yourself.

How lucky to return to a familiar place with fresh eyes; to go home and see it from a new angle.

 

So much of design comes down to approaching things you love with perspective, reimagining existing forms in a way only you could. Though we may share the same language, shapes and colors, there are endless ways to say, “This is me, I am here” 

Fashion for me has always been about helping someone plant that flag. 

Coming home reminds me why C.F.P.S. exists: to always remember and honor where you came from no matter how far you go. 

It’s about high hopes, and the small memories and reminders that make you proud of where you’re from. 

It’s about all the “Small Town, USA” cities that don’t get put onto a t-shirt you’d find at the mall, in travels I’ve found that there is no roadmap to self, that pride has no population limit, and there’s a fashion world beyond LA, NYC, or Paris. 

Really, what it takes to leave a place, is just the other side to what it would take to stay, so if C.F.P.S. is a reflection of anything

it’s the idea that it’s not where you are, it’s where you want to be. 

 

The river takes and it gives, then it gives all over again.