About the designer

My name is Alma Jean Dacre Walsh, Jean from my mothers side, and Dacre from my father’s, and I am a fashion designer.

It started when I was a kid, I would always want to dress up in princess dresses and watch all the movies with beautiful women wearing beautiful clothing. As I grew up I started to get bullied for the way I looked, for years this depleted my self esteem until I became shameful of who and what I was, until one day I decided that it was enough. I picked myself out of the gutters and started exploring the world of self respect in the form of fashion. I wanted to stand out and be recognized, not just for other people's expectations, but for my own self. I surrounded myself with wonderful people including my amazing teachers and my first true friends who had helped me in their own ways to grow up and reflect on my life.

I was 15 when I realized that fashion is my calling. It was like a voice that had always been ringing in my head and that I finally listened to. A burst of inspiration boosted me into learning how to draw and sew garments to express these visions of beautiful clothing I had been relaying in my head for as long as I can remember. I have never been as driven, or as motivated to get what I want.

I am proud to say that I am ready to breach the world of fashion and show it what I am capable of.

To add a personal touch to this page, I have an example of a couple of creations I have made for myself in the past couple of months.

Personal creations

This is a skirt that I have been wanting for quite a while now. It is a simple half-circle skirt with a blue plaid pattern. and one day I got up and had a sudden inspiration to make it! It was somewhat of a challenge to line up the pattern in a way that would work for the curvature of a circle skirt. Although it is not perfect, I love the way that this turned out. I finished this project November 2024.

This dress is actually pretty special because I created it for my birthday. It was the beginning of summer 2024 and my family reveled to me that we were going on a trip to Italy in the end of September! Coincidentally, that happens to be my birthday month. Being the person I am, I had to create something unique to wear in one of the most beautiful countries in the world. I designed this dress with my vision of myself in mind but also practical and achievable logic for this timeframe. It is a full length black slit dress with a one of a kind custom sun beading pattern on the side. I truly put my all into this dress and wore it proudly. This dress was completed September 2024.