AS SEEN IN

OFAOLAIN’s handcrafted, one-of-a-kind pieces have walked the runways of New York and Paris Fashion Week, and been featured by top publications, including Vogue Runway, WWD, and Forbes.

VOGUE RUNWAY WWD FORBES

RUNWAY & EXHIBITION HISTORY

  • New York Fashion Week — Bach Mai (September 2024, September 2025)

  • New York Fashion Week — Korto Momolu (multiple seasons, 2014–2023)

  • New York Fashion Week — Independent designer showings (2014, 2015)

  • Paris Fashion Week — Aryea Kolubuh (March 2024)

  • Round Top, TX Red Carpet Fashion Show — OFAOLAIN pieces featured alongside Balmain (March 2024)

  • Fashion Woodlands — Theresa Roemer’s Make-A-Wish benefit with Cesar Galindo (November 2024)

  • Designers Choice Fashion Preview — Korto Momolu (2014–2017), Independent (2018)

  • FashionxDallas & FashionxHouston — with Korto Momolu, Daniel Esquivel (2017)

  • Nashville Fashion Week — Eileen Kelly (2018)

  • The Werk Gallery and Object Lab — permanent and rotating collections (2023–present)

  • Thea Foundation Department Artist (2019, 2023)

PRESS COVERAGE

Digital Features

  • Vogue Runway — September 2024, September 2025

  • WWD — September 2024, September 2025

  • Forbes — September 2024, November 2024

  • Huffington Post — 2017

  • Hunger Magazine — 2016

  • Nylon Magazine — 2015

  • Diesel campaign feature — 2018

Print Magazines

  • Elle — May 2016

  • The Untitled Magazine — 2017

  • Image Amplified — 2017

  • Dazed Korea — 2021

  • Mr Warburton Magazine — 2020

  • Sensi Magazine — 2020

  • Lucy’s — 2017, 2020

  • Volant — 2019

  • Spirit and Flesh — 2015, 2018

Regional Press & Interviews

  • Soiree — 2019, 2020, 2023

  • Arkansas Times — 2019

  • Democrat-Gazette — 2014

  • The Idle Class — 2019

RECOGNITION

2024 Arkansas Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship

WHERE TO FIND OFAOLAIN

  • Little Rock, AR — Barbara Jean

  • Dallas, TX — Grange Hall

  • San Antonio, TX — Sloan/Hall

  • Houston, TX — Tootsies

  • Round Top, TX — 550 Market, Rockabilly Baroness

  • St. Petersburg, FL — The Werk Gallery and Object Lab

  • St. Tropez, France — Margaux Sur Mer

Every OFAOLAIN piece is designed, cut, and hand-stitched by founder Bryant Phelan in Little Rock, Arkansas — worn on runways from New York to Paris, and carried by clients around the world.