NYRA KADE
NYRA KADE, born in 2003, is a visionary fashion artist who launched her provocative avant-garde practice at the astonishing age of 16, channeling a theatrical intensity reminiscent of Alexander McQueen.
Raised in the misty mountains near Asheville, North Carolina, in a family marked by poverty and instability, marked by frequent moves, absent parents, and financial hardship, she turned to clothing as both refuge and rebellion. With little more than scavenged fabrics, needles, and thread, the young Nyra began stitching her own garments at age 5, transforming cast-off materials into fantastical, body-embracing forms that allowed her to escape and reclaim control over her world.
Immersed from childhood in books that fueled her imagination, devouring Alexander McQueen’s savage beauty in Savage Beauty (discovered in a library discard pile as a teen), the surreal visions of Salvador Dalí, the dystopian anatomies in William Gibson’s cyberpunk novels, and the subversive femininity of Angela Carter’s fairy tales, she forged a fierce, self-taught aesthetic rooted defiance.