The wonderful world of fashion did not always appeal to Emmanuel Tobias.  He was first and foremost a business major with an entrepreneurial mind.  But one day, he was approached to model at a student fashion show where he was enlightened by all the creative energy around him.  The following semester, he enrolled in the fashion program at El Centro College, where he earned his Associate’s degree in Patternmaking before transferring to the University of North Texas, where he graduated in May 2011 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Fashion Design.

While in school, he worked at Richard Brooks Fabrics, where he learned about the finest textiles in the world and was mentored by the in house couture designer Michael Faircloth. While he maintained a heavy course load, he was also creating custom designs for private clients.  His competitive nature led him to earn numerous industry awards including Most Creative at UNT’s Art Wear fashion show, 2nd place at Scion Driving Fashion Competition, 1st place in eveningwear and Best of Show at Fashion Group International’s Career Day, 1st place at Crimson in the City’s Bellisimo Fashion Runway Event and has also volunteered to be part of the prop building team in both Kidney Texas and Stanley Korshak’s Wizards of Awe and Behind the Seams fashion shows. 

He seeks to create eccentric garments that portray illusions to flatter the figure and manipulate the eye through lines and curves.  Driven by creative impulse, he is inspired by any unique intelligence, the divine, surrealism, ethereal, goth, mystic forces.  His work exhibits the higher qualities of human nature such as affection, regeneration, and fertility through symbolism.  His strengths include developing designs from concept boards to final presentation through the use of color stories, silhouette, analyzing market trends, to draping and flat pattern techniques.