We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Rene Mejia. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Rene below.

Hi Rene, thanks for joining us today. Can you talk to us about a project that’s meant a lot to you?

I believe that up to now, my most meaningful project that I have worked on is the collection that I am presenting at Paris Fashion Week soon. This project has been postponed for many years; I wanted to do it in 2020, but unfortunately, due to Covid, I did not get to achieve this. Now that it’s almost around the corner, I still feel as excited and scared as I did when I first wanted to do it.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

My name is Rene Mejia, the owner of a self-titled fashion brand. I have been operating the brand for about 5 years, primarily focusing on made-to-measure garments for clients, including ready-to-wear and special occasions. I am originally from El Salvador, and growing up, my mother worked as a seamstress. This is how I began to dabble in the understanding of fashion and design, which led me to pursue studies in fashion design. I wanted to fully understand what it means to run a brand. Now, I am taking the big step of presenting a collection at Paris Fashion Week, which is one of, if not the biggest step and investment I have made for the brand. I believe that I am ready to take it to the next level.

Is there a particular goal or mission driving your creative journey?

For me, I think this goal or mission comes from a very different place than most people, I would say. I feel very lucky to be where I am in life right now, as I grew up in a country that had no future for me, with merely little to call my own. So, having had the privilege to escape those circumstances and seeing my mom work 12-hour shifts at a restaurant so she could pay for an efficiency in the middle of South Florida with no AC, infested with roaches and rats, having to do everything she could to make sure we had enough to survive the next day, is a driving force that not many people have to make something for themselves and make sure that they don’t take things for granted. The goal is to grow my brand as much as I can to take it to be a global success, and I know that will not be easy.

What do you find most rewarding about being a creative?

For me, the reward of being a creative is the look on people’s faces when they see something that I have created. Sometimes they understand it, and sometimes they don’t. To me, it’s not a matter of whether you understood it or not; it’s a matter of whether it made you feel something. If it did, I have done my job, because that’s what art should do to you. It should make you feel something, and fashion is a form of art.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.renemejia.com
• Instagram: @renemejiadesigns
• Facebook: m.facebook.com/renemejiaofficial
• Youtube: @renemejiadesign

Image Credits
Hair & Makeup: JB Pinigitore @jbblk Model: Anais Pomeline @anaispomeline Photography: Rene Mejia