THE STUDIO.
Behind the collections.
The homepage presents the collections. This page introduces the mind behind them.
Designer · Cultural Researcher · Maker
The Studio 85 · Fredericksburg, Virginia
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The House
The Studio 85 is an independent fashion and design house creating original apparel, wearable art, and designed objects rooted in Black artistry, memory, and intentional design.
Founded by Quinnee Pratt—designer, creative director, cultural researcher, and maker—the studio approaches design as more than aesthetics. It is a practice of preservation, storytelling, and cultural authorship.
Drawing from Black visual culture, collegiate traditions, faith, history, fashion, archival material, and everyday life, The Studio 85 transforms stories worth remembering into objects worth keeping. The work moves between apparel, art, paper, textiles, and objects—allowing the medium to follow the story.
- A garment can become an archive.
- A journal can become an heirloom.
- A pattern can hold history.
- An ordinary object can become evidence that we were here.
Black culture is notsimply inspiration.
It is intellectual material, creative inheritance, and living archive.
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We look backward without becoming nostalgic, studying the visual languages, institutions, traditions, places, and people that shaped us while imagining what those histories can become in contemporary form.
This is where Preservation meets Experimentation.
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The Collections
Collegiate heritage, cultural studies, prints, stationery, and pieces that exist somewhere between artifact, fashion, and function. Nothing is created simply to fill space.
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Every piece begins with a story.
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Every detail carries intention.
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Every collection adds something to the archive.
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The Work
One house, one archive. The collections lead; the creative practice reinforces the vision.
Made — The Collections
Shop the CollectionsDirected — Select Commissions
- Creative Direction
- Art Direction
- Fashion & Apparel Brand Identity
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Philosophy
Our design language is editorial, culturally grounded, and unafraid of contrast—
i.Historic/contemporary
ii.Intellectual/playful
iii.Sacred/ordinary
iv.Restrained/extravagant
We believe Black creativity deserves the freedom to contain all of these things at once.
The Studio 85 does not treat culture as a trend or an aesthetic shortcut. We create with context, curiosity, care, and reverence for what came before us.
Our responsibility is not merely to reproduce history, but to engage it—to preserve what matters, reinterpret what remains, and create new objects capable of carrying those stories forward.
Ultimately, we are building more than products.
We arebuildinga collection.
An evolving archive of Black culture, memory, beauty, and imagination.
Objects for now. Artifacts for later.