Sonia Melkisetian was named after her late grandmother. In Is She Me?, she approaches that shared name through the work her grandmother did as a hairdresser: a craft of shaping, arranging, and caring for others. The collection considers what Sonia has inherited from her grandmother, and how she might practice that inheritance in her own way.

In this collection, hairdressing informs both the surfaces and the silhouettes. Sonia folds, loops, and stitches ribbons together to make new fabrics, translating the repeated gestures of working with hair into textile construction. Beading adds another level of intricacy, while layered materials and sculptural forms draw on the volume, texture, and dimension of styled hair. Patternmaking gives those experiments structure, allowing the ribbons and layers to become garments rather than illustrations of their source.

The palette moves through black and brown into nude, pale pink, lilac, and light blue. Across these colors, the collection holds closeness and difference together: the grandmother whose name and craft Sonia carries, and the designer finding her own language within them. Is She Me? keeps the care and skill of an inherited practice while changing its materials, its setting, and the hands that give it form.