A sailor of travelling adventure, Australian Jeffrey Monteiro leads his own eponymous business in the thresholds of New York

In the television career of French journalist Bernard Pivot, one special guest appearance that of Woody Allen exclaimed wittingly that he would be reincarnated as a sponge because they’re lovable. But a sponge in Jeffrey Monteiro’s cultural heritage is one who has literally taken the absorption of life – minute to inextricably eventful experiences both of fondness and adventure. This Australian designer who spent his adolescent schooling years in Melbourne, Australia has pursued an odyssey that now sets himself firmly in New York City’s grandiose. Yet Monteiro does not forget his roots. The extremely comfortable ease he omits, wearing rounded brim bi-focals the short black Indian luster hair, his facets are of which has binded him in the world of fashion. Perhaps not initially forecasting that this gentleman would consume himself in the both fickled yet pleasurable nature of creating clothes for the modern day woman, he as one fine example, an illustration of unbridled determination that Fashion would be his life and core discipline. He sprung himself with good graces at the University of Melbourne undertaking a fashion degree then launched himself as Design Director of well-known figure Jane Mayle’s clothing line in 2001. He then left after four years to direct Derek Lam in the same role.

The direct distinction with Monteiro’s clothes is the forgo of picture perfection. He rather builds on texture, subtlety and the cusp of a cut on tailored pieces that the everyday woman can sensitize. This sensitivity is a reflection of Monteiro pensive observation whose willing focus provides both empowerment and dexterity in women’s lives today. In speaking with Cultures In Between, he opens himself to questions of his raison d’être and what spars him onwards for him eponymous brand above and beyond this realm of our world.