Photographer: Peter Lundblad Designs: Amanda Lorraine Semur-en-Auxois, France
The Genesis
What did The Eden of The Fashion Industry Actually look like? God’s original intention. The blueprints. I believe that this industry was destined to express the beauty, wonder, and splendor of God. Colours that breathe life into the veins of culture, painting the streets with decadence and hope. Fabrics that adorn His beautiful people, textures that tell stories of Heaven.
May we be a generation that taps into the storehouses of designs and creativity that is waiting to spill out over all this earth, painting the earth with new sounds, new textures, and Heaven’s patterns.
What if The Eden of the fashion industry was actually create to reflect all of Heaven? Silks of wisdom, linens of hope, colors of Heaven. What if we were meant to revel in wonder at designs gleaming with the blueprints of a Father’s love for His children?
Photographer: Peter Lundblad Designs: Amanda Lorraine Semur-en-Auxois, France
The Why
God created each of us so uniquely, so differently— each of us on The Potter’s Wheel, being kneaded with story & mission & unique DNA breathed into life.
To love deeply, to connect, and to be carriers of Kingdom Peace and light.
We are carriers of beauty—Created in His image, In Beauty,
& out of Beauty.
I so long to see women step into their unique beauty with confidence—
You are the only YOU on this planet.
Let us be women that are not following trends, but rather, setting them.
Photographer: Peter Lundblad Designs: Amanda Lorraine Semur-en-Auxois, France
The Vision
As a designer, I have always been curious about the relationship between different mediums of art and of nature, as they collide and tell stories. For example, I love the relationship between movement & texture. How fibers & textiles lay on the body form & dance throughout the day. I tend to design things that feel ethereal in nature— fabrics that float, cascade, & drape, almost as if the garment were a melody to a classical piece of music.
Movement, fabric, sound, colour, fragrance, all leading up to the crescendo of the creation at hand. All writing poetry.
What would it look like if artists from across multi-disciplinary mediums, all built in collaboration to tell Kingdom stories? To take us back to The Garden. To share about The Gospels. What would it look like? What would it sound like? What would it feel like? What would it smell like?
If we, as Christians, have been given access to the mind of Christ, what MORE can we create? What more can we tap in together? What beauty can unfold as we become bridges between The Bride and culture? What could we create that would inspire the world around us and invite prodigals, and firstborns alike, into the story of Christ?
As these questions have bubbled out over years of prayer, I have had the privilege of digging deeper into these questions and perplexities. When we simply bring our first and best, our talents and our gifts, to the table of collaboration, I have witnessed The Holy Spirit breathe on art, turning galleries into altars. Sacred bridges that bring Heaven to earth.
So now, I humbly submit an invitation to work on this concept at a larger scale. Collaboration throughout the many genres of art, all to usher in a new sound and fragrance of Heaven. He is doing a new thing, do we not perceive it?
Photographer: Peter Lundblad Designs: Amanda Lorraine Semur-en-Auxois, France
About The Artist
Amanda Lorraine Ziegler is a California-based fashion designer, artist, story-teller, and dreamer whose work exists at the intersection of artistry, craftsmanship, and purpose.
Amanda always dreamed of becoming a Fashion Designer, ever since she was a little girl. During a study-abroad program in University, she had the opportunity to stay, live, & create in a medieval Castle in The South of France. During a time of prayer, she had an encounter with The Lord that forever marked her. She was praying about the Fashion industry, and she heard The Lord say, “This is your unreached people group. This is your Mission Field. GO!” And so, that’s exactly what she did- she dove straight in.
With degrees in Art, Product Development & Merchandising, and International Manufacturing & Product Development, Amanda has spent more than twelve years bringing beauty from imagination into reality. She has guided each creation from vision to sketch, from fabric to factory, from dream to the lives of more than one million young women around the world. Her designs have been available in Major Department stores, boutiques, & discounter retailers across the US, while some of her most meaningful custom work, has been worn and photographed in Paris, Burgundy, Lake Como, Venice, & Milan.
Yet numbers have never been the story.
Amanda believes beauty is a language spoken by Heaven.
Her heart is continually drawn back to The Garden—the place where femininity first bloomed, where beauty was never performance but presence, and where identity was received rather than achieved. She believes clothing can do far more than adorn the body; it can awaken identity, restore confidence, and gently remind women of who they have always been.
Every collection begins as a conversation between heaven and earth: a fleeting vision carried through creativity, craftsmanship, and production before finding its way into someone’s story. For Amanda, fashion is not simply about creating garments—it is about clothing God’s daughters in kingdom beauty & femininity, inviting a generation of women to rediscover the dignity, confidence, and elegance woven into them by their Creator from the very beginning.
Creating from the City of Angels, Amanda approaches design as both vocation and worship. She spends her days gathering fragments of wonder and translating them into pieces that carry beauty into the world—believing there is profound privilege in dreaming, creating, and releasing beauty into the atmosphere.
Because fashion, at its best, is more than what we wear.
It is an invitation to remember.
To remember that we were fashioned before we ever fashioned ourselves.
That true beauty reflects our Maker.
And that every thread has the potential to tell a story of the One who makes all things beautiful.
Photographer: Peter Lundblad Designs: Amanda Lorraine Semur-en-Auxois, France
