Helena Eisenhart New York was established in 2015 in Brooklyn, NY. The brand began as a playful experiment with one of one garments, made from unusual textiles. Some of these include found materials like the vinyl mesh screens from construction sites and knits made from cassette tape. In the past few collections, they have shifted their focus to create more sustainable designs, creating garments and accessories from up-cycled vintage fabrics and trims.

Helena focuses on making each garment with a unisex fit. Each piece is made at their studio in NYC, and combines high end tailoring techniques with a collage of textiles that truly tell their own stories. The past few collections show developments into oil paintings, digital embroideries and screen prints of the designers poetry and sketches onto garments.

Helena’s practice is interdisciplinary, using their background in the arts to blur lines between fashion and art. Their materials are just as important as the work itself, utilizing both a conceptual and intellectual approach to fashion design with a little bit of humor. Their practice is a continuous exploration of their identities, and a way to invite new ways of thinking about items we use or wear daily. 

Helena Eisenhart is an artist and designer from the Bay Area, California. Their background is in fine arts, tailoring and styling. They have worked with artists such as Tinashe and Rico Nasty for their musical performances, SOPHIE for her Grammy dress, Oneohtrix Point Never for his performances on SNL and at the Park Avenue Armory with Kelsey Lu, King Woman for her sold out shows in New York, Debby Friday for her 2023 “Good Luck” Tour, Ian Isiah for their Auntie Tour, Dev Hynes and Tei Shi for their music video with Diddy for “Hope", and again for Dev Hynes and Carly Rae Jepsen for their music video for “Better Than Me”.

Their designs have also been worn by Billy Porter, Alton Mason, Suzanne Ciani, Julia Cumming, May Rio, The Frost Children, Jimi Lucid, Blake the Man 1000, Meka Boyle for Jeffrey Campbell, and featured in a short film, “One Magenta Afternoon” by Vernon Jordan III. They worked on the design team at Hood by Air and Anonymous Club, KTZ, Zana Bayne, and Glazed NYC. They have also worked alongside the stylist Lori Goldstein, and the artist Ruth Root.

Their first collection and show for Spring/Summer 2015 was part of Pratt Institute’s final thesis collection show. They have since shown at DRØME's NYFW September 2017 fashion show at the Ace Hotel, a self produced group show in 2018 and their first solo show during NYFW for their F/W 2023 collection at Theaterlab, a theater in New York’s Garment District.

Their work has been featured at the Isamu Noguchi Museum as part of a special fashion exhibition inspired by Noguchi sculptures, their design was the winning look at Susanne Bartsch’s Love Ball III, and their work has had placements in Elle Magazine, Numéro Netherlands, PAPER magazine, Dazed, Office Magazine, Nylon magazine, i-D Magazine, WWD, Coeval Magazine, Schön Magazine, Flaunt Magazine, Pap Magazine, Surface Magazine, Kaltblut, The L Magazine, DRØME, Cake Magazine, Brooklyn Magazine, Subvrt Mag, Volition Magazine, Nakid Magazine, Satellite Journal, Teeth Mag, Report Magazine, Tmrw Mag, Fashionista and Alt Press.