Native Angeleno Jacqueline Racquel Vaca wears many hats.

She’s a magical milliner, a wardrobe wizard, a passionate dancer, a classically trained singer, and a careful curator.

Blending experiences & techniques, she draws inspiration from nature, travel, classic cinema, history and people’s rights movements, emerging science and technology, and of course her stylish friends. Creating for what surrounds her, she translates the delicate dichotomies of the world by capturing both the seemingly-effortless and always eye-catching. She loves to take in bygone eras, anthropological origins, jazz in every temperature, physics beyond the standard model, and forward-thinking renderings of equitably sustainable societies.

It’s not always delicious to marinate in the poignant truth discovered through ingesting a whole ecosystem, as beauty and the grotesque exist simultaneously. But there is a sense of universal play involved with the nuance and balance of this juxtaposition, and even in the darkest times, this process helps me harbor hope for humanity. My work encourages joie de vivre, standing in one’s own power, and developing unique dialects of expression.

I aim to be a bastion for reimagining practical ways creativity can help free the human race; to find courage in who they wholly are by confronting shadows & shedding skins.

Her bespoke, recycled fashion highlights the critical need to reuse preexisting materials, and causes pause for consumers to consider whose hands make their goods.