r for Parsons School of Fashion where they graduated in 2023 with a BFA in Fashion Design, receiving both academic and departmental awards. While at Parsons they were a resident advisor, as well as a research assistant for the first comprehensive plus size patterning book under Lelia Kelliher and Gabby Brown.

Kostrzewa’s awards include the Re:Generation Innovation Award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America which they received in 2022, the same year they were invited to be one of five Parsons Designers to participate in the Circular Design Summit at Aalto School of Design in Helsinki, Finland. This year they also gave a speech at the Live Mas conference on accessible sustainable fashion titled “Change Your Clothes and Join the Revolution.” In 2021 they were the youngest, and second American in 15 years, to become a finalist for the Redress Design Awards, the largest sustainable fashion design competition internationally. Their earlier achievements include being a Youngarts alumni and a finalist on season 2 of Project Runway Jr. Besides fashion design Kostrzewa is interested in solarpunk, religion, history, and indigenous issues.