Nyla Hasan

This month, CreativeMornings Hudson Valley joins chapters around the globe in exploring the theme Local — the places that shape us, the ones we come from, leave, choose, and carry with us. This theme invites us to look at identity through the lens of place and belonging, and how it can be our creative superpower.

Our guest speaker this month, Nyla Hasan, has been drawing from these dimensions her whole life and turning them into something you can wear.

After 15 years in fashion, including working as a designer for Tory Burch, Elie Tahari, and Tanya Taylor, Nyla co-founded the øther, a brand that's earned features in both Vogue and the New York Times. Her conviction: that style can hold contradiction, and that the space between worlds isn't a problem to solve. It's where the most interesting work gets made.

Her work asks what it looks like to stop choosing between your worlds and start making something new from all of them.

Join us for a morning with Nyla Hasan, as she shares what it means to be local, not just to a place, but to ourselves and to each other.

The Common Thread — On Style, Story, and Belonging
What we inherit — our roots, our traditions, and our history shapes who we are and how we show up in the world. On March 27, Nyla explores how personal style reflects that inheritance, and how the way we dress connects us back to where we come from and who we're becoming.

Meet Nyla
Curiosity, nostalgia, and craft is what drives how Nyla Hasan creates. She considers herself a maker across various disciplines in and outside of fashion. Inspired by her mixed South Asian roots, she attributes much of her inspiration to her heritage where she aims to present old world crafts in untraditional ways. Nyla investigates the connection between us transcending borders, where we find belonging, and expanding the narrative. Most of her life she had felt like an "other," the tension between these two polarizing identities she learned to find beauty in the between and seeks to connect with others who find themselves in this same space.