New York Fashion Week designer of unorthodox, sub-cultured and catalytic couture. A former tattoo artist and graphic designer, Middleton rose to autodidact sartorial prominence as the executive and aesthetic director for brands such as Sweetheart Harley and Dress for Dopamine. Middleton bridges the gap between fashion, costumes, mental health awareness, and gothic art under her couture company Haus of Harleen. She believes the most beautiful kind of art is raw, unapologetic, used as a coping mechanism, and tells a story: "you can see the darkest parts of someone through their work, but also an irreplaceable innocents that was broken while the shards remain." -Harleen Middleton