Patricia Fistes Adams is an aggressive, ingenious, complex women. She gives the impression that there is nothing you can't achieve. "I know who I am, I know what I want." She is full of brightness and forces the fashion industry to rethink its position by challenging its conventions and eventually dismantling them.Â
"Obsessing over the rise and fall of hemlines is irrelevant to me. I am insistent on showing fashion more substance." Fistes-Adams has been a formidable force in the fashion industry for almost seven years because of her continued commitment to innovation, creativity, and excellence. As result, her creativity is the result of an electrical lightning storm. In 2002 she launched a life-style brand that sets important precedents for fashion, intended to celebrate individuals who have profound commitment to pursuing their dreams.The Lourdes Collection and Barking Fire Couture by Patricia Fistes-Adams promotes the individuals who wear the garment. Her designs are compelling as the people who bring life to them. "I design for everyone and reimagine fashion without sacrificing individuality. We are all one. I design for individuals that have inner fire, passion and strength. You cannot let society dictate who you are. I define beauty for myself and I defy trends." Fistes-Adams is unapologetic about her passion and wants to change the perception of beauty. Every product that bears Barking Fire presents a seamless image such as integrity, intellect,elegance, tradition, value, morale, fire, class, depth. Above all Barking Fire Couture is a celebration of individuals regardless of height, weight, color, race, and sex.Â
"There is not a canned definition of beauty. Beauty may not reside in places our society suggests because it lies within. Ultimately, my designs will not transform you into a beautiful person. You have to know who you are and what you want out of life to wear my garments." Her garments are almost secondary. "My approach to design has given way to a more "experience of creation" approach with an emphasis on progression and reaction. It is almost visceral or out-of-body when you physically witness creation come to fruition. It is a very powerful, profound and engaging process for me...very unpredictable, my inspiration is very unpredictable as well." Her creativity is best demonstrated through the combination of different ideas and concepts fusing them into one cohesive collection. Her "live" room-size butterfly dress, animated puppet headdress, proves that her resolve will not change. She has a nothing is impossible synaesthetic combination of concepts and each design is different yet cohesive.Â
Lourdes designs are associated with a sophisticated and distinctly bold attitude. My Lourdes collection is about royalty and how we are all a part of the same lineage..We all have red and blue blood. While Barking Fire,the exceedingly powerful brand resonates to high powered women that have made a positive difference. Fistes-Adams has defined new boundaries of personal involvement with fashion by charting ways to bring together strong confident women from the past and present,marking the beginning of a Barking Fire Revolution..a movement for inner beauty and individuality.
In addition, Fistes-Adams is well-known for designing room-size ball gowns and headdress. She has been coined as a cross between Yves St. Laurent and Alexander McQueen. She has gifted celebrities such as Clive Davis, Bonnie Fuller, Martin Richards, Sol Kerzner, Jessica Simpson, Ashley Simpson, Kelley Rowland, Heather Headley, Patti Labelle, Wyclef Jean, Dame Shirley Bassey, Marc Anthony, Barbara Walters, Marissa Jaret Winokour, Helen Gurley Brown, Star Jones, Carol Alt, Lorraine Braco, Ivana Trump, Joan Collins, Sarah Dash, Gloria Gaynor, Debra Gison, Gladys Night, Dionnes Warwick, Montel Williams, Denise Rich, Russell Simmons. She has been featured on Metro TV, Entertaimnet Tonight, Access Hollywood, People, WWD, Daily News, US Weekly,Fashion, Entertainment Weekly, Fashion Calendar International, MTV, Elle Japan, Harper's Bazaar Japan, Lucire, Fashion Televsion Paris, Full Frontal Fashion,VH1, the Times Square jumbo tron and more.
Patrica Fistes-Adams grew up in Scottsdale, Arizona where she experienced a fair share of theater traveling regularly to New york and Europe to attend musicals. The sheer amount of costumes was inspiring. During her childhood her family had formative influence. Throughout middle school and high school she expressed her individuality wearing differently themed headdress daily. " I was a non-conformist and was reknown in high school as someone who was refreshing and dedicated to her pursuit of individuality...I wore bird cages on my head, tree of life headdress, flower pot headdress, it was my way of rebelling. Her early talent steered her toward fashion earning her a four-year full scholarship to prestigious Pratt in New York, Graduating with highest distinction and winning numerous national and international design awards, her designs became world-class. Her sense of theatricality is apparent in all of her work, from her breakthrough as part of costume development for Walt Disney's Theatrical Production, "The Lion King" to working with the fashion czar of Asia, Pitoy Moreno. Her collections evoke creativity and the pure adrenaline rush of theater, but her knowledge could not have blossomed the way it did only in Paris where she consulted with the Swarovoski creative center.
Patricia Fistes-Adams is an indication of the vitality of a passage taken, of a way of conceptualizing, rationalizing, thinking. "I hope to give method by which people combat darkness, to do good for others, to bring light to the world." Fistes-Adams is also a philanthropist. She strongly supports G & P Cancer Research Foundation. For Angel Ball 2003 she donated several gowns for auction estimated at $95,000. She has also designed swarovski crystal wands for the Make-A-Wish Chris Grecious Society.
"I don't know what the future holds. I love creating; it's heaven now. I hope to design heaven. Accept me, accept me not."
