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 Harpers Bazaar, 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.