Guided by the direction of Vasilisa Sugak and the eye of Robert Moore, Metamorphosis is both a fashion story and a meditation on identity, resilience, and rebirth.

Kore is a small moon in the outer reaches of the galaxy, bristling with odd little flowers that resist the attempts of hapless strangers to encourage them to grow under a roof. It was just the right place for me to be, on the occasion a trader swung by.

I’m uncomfortable with how Appalachian identity works in the media and in academia, both because I think it’s a problematic identity that I hold too dearly and because I think I’m faking it.