Dylan is a published author, writer, artist, and entrepreneur with a diverse and seasoned background in fashion, art, and media. Having anchored their career and expressions in creativity, beauty, and writing, Dylan has spent years collaborating with prolific designers and industry leaders as a hairstylist, contributing editor, copywriter, and poet — helping to cultivate the architecture and rhetoric behind compelling artists, their work, and their stories. Dylan has also built a rich foundation in the professional beauty world — one that has carried them from agencies, to magazines, to fashion weeks, and back into the studio — creating kaleidoscopic work that exemplifies over 16 years of technical practice and artistry. 

In 2023, Dylan expanded their private, freelance business into their first ever brick-and-mortar studio in downtown Toronto — cementing a personal and professional dream, and the beginning point of much greater things. 

Today, Dylan’s love and passion for design continues to grow alongside every avenue that colour, expression, and beauty meet — from fabric, to food, to paint, to people. Every story has a heart, and every heart has a story. Dylan’s intention is to discover and share that voice.

“By looking into myself, I see my grandmother, my mother, the elders in the temple, and me. By making soy sauce, I am reliving the wisdom of my ancestors…and I acknowledge its importance. It is no longer just me that’s doing things. It’s me in the past, in the present, and even in the future. Soy sauce is eternal. It is life itself.”

-JEONG KWAN