Jamaican-born designer Rachel Scott comes to fashion through language. Drawing on her background in French existentialism and post-structuralism, Ms. Scott’s interest in fashion began with an awareness of language’s connection to culture and creativity. In an effort to stay close to “the things themselves,” she looked to fashion design as a moment of intellectual, aesthetic, and corporeal unity to be explored. 

Having worked at all levels of the design process – from designer to executive to consultant – throughout her 17-year career in Milan and New York City, Ms. Scott brings vast technical and creative knowledge to Diotima. Foundational experiences at Costume National in Italy laid the groundwork for an approach to fashion rooted in a reverence for craft, construction, and fine materials. Her design sensibility as a Jamaican grounds her work in the concrete intersection of the historical, political, and the aesthetic.