Ethan 'EEBEE'
Donaldson
Ethan is a full-time artist, fashion designer, and creative educator, based in Boston MA
He is focused on creating wearables with freelance clients, mentoring the next generation of designers and artists through peer review, and guest teaching,
and developing his own fashion brand, EEBEE.
in 2024 he graduated from Massachusetts College of Art & Design as a BFA in Fashion Design with departmental honors. Through working with various forms of 2D and wearable media including clothing and jewelry, Ethan strives to represent and advocate for the value of community, creative education, and sustainability.
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Ethans design philosophy centers around the human experience and interrogating the conditions that bind us to each other as members of a community and make up our collective identity. The use of up-cycled materials and rejected dead stock represents an ideal of redemption, reproach, and the virtue that life is under constant review.
EEBEE the fashion label is inspired ​by introspection, skateboarding, creative education, Alexander McQueen, Supreme, Absurdism, freedom, the corporeal experience, community, Martin Margiela, Cubism, recycling, getting hurt and dirty, philosophy, psychology, dogs, social infrastructure, Abstraction, Ai WeiWei, Tailors, the colors black, red, blue, and white, the proletariat, etymology, social justice, Flobots, graffitti, squares and grids, negative space, Francis Bacon, Naruto, the MBTA, etc.
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EEBEE the brand was created as a means of promoting a sustainable and slow approach to fashion, and to garner a community of likeminded artists to collaborate and connect through ​​meaningful projects of various nature.
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'EEBEE,' the name, comes from a family nickname that was inspired by E.B White, the American author and essayist of the 1900's likely best known for writing 'Charlottes Web' and 'Stuart Little' and affectionately for myself, 'Here is New York' and other essays.