When Willy Chavarria was a child in California’s Central Valley, he would ask his mother to buy him address books from the dollar store. Afterward, “I would draw dresses in them, because I thought they were ‘a dress’ books,” he recalls with a smile.
The drawings reflected an early fascination with clothes as a means of expression and identity. “I was just really obsessed with the way people would dress to define themselves, to show themselves aligning with a certain group or a certain
