Nile Baker

Nile Baker, born in California, is a self-taught designer and clothing maker, who has been designing professionally since 2014. His interest in clothing design and manufacture started when he had to create a dance costume for his senior year BFA concert. Baker takes an artisanal and slow approach to creating, using hand-sewing techniques, dyeing by hand and working primarily with natural fibres. He combines old world craft with unusual, modern and avant-garde design details. Baker has worked in the ateliers of Zam Barrett, an avant-garde designer based in Brooklyn and Robert Danes, a women’s evening wear designer based in New York City. Baker has designed costumes for Indelible Dance and other New York dance artists.