Dario Mohr is an American Fashion designer and Fine Artist. He was born in Cape Cod Massachusetts, and lived in NY NY, San Francisco California, and Buffalo NY to name a few. His mother was always fashion obsessed and he would find himself looking through fashion magazines regularly without realizing where the unintentional inspiration would lead. He began as an illustrator later honing his fine art niche as an exhibiting painter and mixed media artist in high school which lead him to win the Fine Artist Board of Education award for his graduating class. Throughout and shortly after receiving his BA at Buffalo State College, Dario had 15 One Man Shows and Exhibited in over seventy shows internationally by the time he was 23. Throughout this time, Dario became increasingly interested in the dynamic art form of fashion and collaborated on his first fashion line called “BuddhaHood Threads” with OMI of SaiOne Elmwood Boutique, where he was interning.
The line graced the walls of galleries as well as fashion shows. Beyond the philosophy of his other line, Dario sought an uninhibited, subversive direction for his Fashion Art, thus Daft Minerva was born. The name Daft Minerva translates as “Foolish Wisdom”. It is for the pragmatic eccentric with a deviant bend. Having been inspired by designers such as Alexander McQueen and Mondo Guerra, he’s come to draw a graphic influence from abstracts, many of which utilized from a black book he had created in high school, in addition to new ones. All of his designs are one of a kind, hand illustrated, hand painted, hand embellished, and printed clothing and accessories. Caps, bags, dresses, skirts, t shirts, jackets, pants, and anything else wearable can be Dafted out and are sold in stores such as SaiOne Elmwood, and on commission. Owls and Abstracts have been the cornerstone of many previous designs, inspired by illustrators such as Bill Plympton and John Dilworth. Spikes and studs and other embellishments have been another convention of Dario’s design process. His line has been featured in Solis Magazine among other publications and Runway shows. Daft Minerva is Dario Mohr’s intention to bring Fine Art to the forefront of Fashion.

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