Fashion designer Mike Amiri outside his studio in downtown Los Angeles. He makes jeans that can cost $1,000 or more and T-shirts that can set the wearer back as much as $325.

It’s true that Amiri is less interested in creating highly merchandised joints than conjuring a kind of person. “I don’t design pieces,” he said. “I design into a spirit.

Amiri, 33, is a Canadian citizen but has been based for the last four years in New Haven, where she received an M.F.A. from Yale. She is quiet and agreeable, and frequently answers questions with ...

Yasiin Bey and Talib Kweli of Black Star are the faces of AMIRI’s Fall/Winter 2023 campaign. Founder and creative director Mike Amiri conceived a campaign with the multi-layered music production ...

Despite the West Coast vibes and the Eastern outpost, Mike Amiri recruited Parisian design studio Nocod to bring the brand's aesthetic to Chinese fans of the brand. That's good news for shoppers ...