ONNER IVES HAS BEEN INTERESTED IN FASHION since he could speak. “I was always hanging out in my mom’s closet, or commenting on what people were wearing,” he says. Fame came in 2017, at the age of 21, when supermodel Adwoa Aboah went to the Met Gala wearing a custom dress he had designed—a swanlike ivory gown made of upcycled vintage pieces. Now his work is featured in the Metropolitan Museum of
