Fashion graduate takes up residency on Isabella Rossellini's farm

Last Spring, actress/model/conservationist Isabella Rossellini created a scholarship fund with Parsons School of Design. Its first recipient, Katya Ekimian, a designer focused on biodiversity with wool, has begun her residency at Rossellini’s farm in Bellport, New York, named Mama Farm because the animals are all female. There, she is incubating her brand, Ovis Aries, which is created with wool from rare sheep that she sources from farms across the United States. FashionUnited spoke with the designer to find out more about the collaboration, and a concept she calls “Farm to fashion.”