There is a moment. A brief, fleeting moment where you’re lying in bed at two in the morning, exhausted, restless, and you start questioning if everything you’ve been doing is worth it; all the hours of work; all the conception of ideas immediately crushed upon realizing the restrictions of your reality; all the rejections; the seemingly futile attempts to inch forward to your goals. In that transitory moment, when that dark cloud of doubt starts billowing towards you, you have two options: you either let it devour you, or you wait, you patiently wait, until it passes. I only wish that when you find yourself in that moment, you choose the latter option. You wait. Because once the cloud clears, you will gain perspective. You will realize that in order to have a garden, you need both the weeds and the flowers. "Meet Me in the Garden" is largely inspired by that; the waiting, the persisting, the enduring, the growing. When I started making this collection I really wanted to capture that feeling when you finally reap what you sowed. When you see the seeds that you planted grow into trees, mighty and tall. A woman I've always admired once said, “to plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” I hope you remind yourself that in many ways you’re like a flower in a garden. Not because you’re frail and delicate and merely beautiful. But because even with dirt in your roots you will still grow. You will still bloom.