Lucie Mowat’s bedroom walls are filled with photographs of strangers—snapshots rescued from estate sales and secondhand stores. Faded wedding portraits, postcards inked with love notes, and anonymous studio photographs quietly radiate unspoken histories, their emotional worth immeasurable.

Her thesis collection, Little Lives, gives a voice to these overlooked stories. Inspired by Nan Goldin’s raw, diaristic images of love, grief, intimacy, and pain, the collection uses intimate garment details—an exposed shoulder, a garter motif, a resin top clinging like wet fabric—to express vulnerability, while swollen “puffs” obscure the body, symbolizing the half-truths photographs often contain. Shells and utensils from Seattle second-hand shops become jewelry and fastenings, asking us to find beauty in the discarded and honor small moments that refuse to be forgotten