Noa Omane

Refaire Archive began in 2024 — not as a plan, but as a response. When Noa's mother survived a ruptured brain aneurysm, something clarified. She needed to build something of her own. Something that could hold.

She started a vintage shop. Sourcing, curating, learning the language of old garments — what a piece carries in its construction, how a decade lives in a seam. Then she discovered hand beading. Glass seed beads, placed one at a time. What began as embellishment became the work itself. Hours, then weeks, then months per piece. The first was the butterfly top — Metamorph. After completing it, she understood what she was actually making.

Refaire Archive is now a textile art practice. Noa takes vintage and found garments and transforms them through hand beadwork — building images, motifs, and weight onto cloth that already carries history. Butterflies mid-flight. Gold armor worn as a dress. Bridal underskirts finally allowed to be seen.

She is also a trained actor, a filmmaker, and a photographer. She has studied at New York Film Academy, NYU Stonestreet, and UCLA, and is currently enrolled at The New School's Eugene Lang College — accepted with a scholarship and directed admissions — studying Culture and Media. Her work has appeared in Elle Magazine and on the sets of HBO and Netflix productions. Every bead in the Archive was placed by her hands.