Born in Kansas City, Missouri and now based in Geelong; Lazarus is a queer, sustainable designer of fashion, wearable art, and accessories. Inspired by their own constantly shifting sense of gender and identity, their work invites wearers to escape the ordinary to become someone, or something, else and to discover the freedom of exploring your own sense of self.

Lazarus’s journey to designing costume and fashion began as an adolescent, jump-scaring strangers annually at their family’s Halloween set-up putting costumes together from whatever trash and scrap they could find and cobble together. Many years later, after a theatrical departure from America, they were still spooking strangers (accidentally this time) as a living statue performer on the streets of Geelong and Melbourne.

Becoming these curious characters opened them to exploring themselves, and their own self-representation leading to the lines between style and fantasy to become blurred until the two combined into a new avant garde form of style and expression.

They then founded Queery This and held a debut runway through the Melbourne organisation Revival Runway with their Queer By Design show in 2024, opening the invitation for anyone to Queery This and question everything.