Io Loves Koko

a design house

In Greek myth, Io is a mortal who refuses Zeus' advances. Zeus, in anger, transforms Io into a cow and his jealous wife Hera torments her with a gadfly. 

Koko the gorilla was born at the San Francisco Zoo. The sole subject of an experiment in human communication, she spent years learning American Sign Language. She had a kitten she named allball who was struck by a car.

An imagined love between Io and Koko inspires our work, a collective effort to speak with integrity in this impermanent, impure, semi-articulate life. We keep it dull. We borrow organizing principles from the diffuse world of fashion design. We never subtract. That’s our formula for this wishful encounter. Welcome in…