Vita

A New Orleans denizen, Ivoire integrates the opulent sensuality and mythic atmosphere of her Southern Gothic heritage with the disciplined rigor of a scholar shaped by a decade of academic study in Europe and America. She completed undergraduate work in German Studies and Religious Studies at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen in Germany, followed by post-graduate studies in theology and the philosophy of religion at Harvard University. 

This transatlantic cultivation—rooted in both aesthetic inquiry and metaphysical reflection—constitutes the intellectual framework of the brand. Her research explores Western esotericism, re-enchantment, philosophical aesthetics, and the grotesque in art and literature—a field in which she received a Fulbright research award to further her studies of the grotesque in German art and literary traditions.

Through this synthesis of intellect and the sensuous, IVOIRE emerges as a Gesamtkunstwerk that situates its aesthetic phenomena as the context and accoutrements of a philosophical vision. The material culture of IVOIRE—an embodiment of that vision across object, film, and text—treats aesthetic experience as a re-enchanting practice in which sensuous form, emotion, and intellect are orchestrated into a single Gesamtkunstwerk of perception.