Maxine Roeder is a fashion designer specializing in eveningwear and eco-effective fashion.

She is drawn to fashion design for its storytelling powers and its functionality as expressive wearable art. For her, fashion merges the conceptual and expressive qualities of art with the practicality of clothing. She sees fashion as a lens to explore topics that are usually examined under a more systematic and conventional approach.

Maxine’s work traverses both the scientific and the emotional, using fashion design as a vehicle to tell stories of nature and the human experience. Drawing on her biology background, Maxine strives to visualize the beauties, enchantments, and struggles of nature. Her work addresses environmental issues, including climate change, habitat fragmentation and species loss. Yet simultaneously, it harnesses the power of human emotion to make these issues tangible to the viewer and to explore how they affect their own emotions.

Sustainability is as important to Maxine as aesthetics. She incorporates sustainability in several ways, from using natural fibers, speciality eco-friendly or deadstock fabrics, patterning and draping to minimize waste, and saving and upcycling scraps. She believes in creating clothes that are made to last beyond trends and incorporates principles of modularity and convertibility to maximize their wear.