Samantha Rei

Beautiful clothing made for people who are beautiful inside and out. Beauty. Strength. Rebellion. Samantha R.

Crossland began her design career with her label "Blasphemina's Closet" in 2000. After closing "Blasphemina's Closet" in September of 2013, she started anew with her new eponymous label "Samantha Rei". "Samantha Rei" embodies the sweetness and femininity that has come to be expected from the designer. Samantha Rei draws her inspiration from such illustrators and Chris Riddell, Brom, Tony DiTerlizz

i, Brett Helquist and Mihara Mitsukazu as well as stories like Alice in Wonderland and Snow White. Her hero Alexander McQueen along with designers Vivienne Westwood, Hirooka Naoto, John Galliano, Victorian maiden and Anna Sui have influenced her style. In 1998, Samantha began attending the Perpich Center for Arts Education in Golden Valley, Minnesota, choosing to hone her skills as an illustrator and painter so she could pursue comic book art. After graduating in 1999, she spent some time at the College of Visual Arts (CoVA) in Saint Paul to major in illustration before continuing her education at the Minneapolis Community and Technical College for Apparel Technologies. She’s been featured in Huffington Post, Shojo Beat, the American Gothic and Lo**ta Bible, Gothic Beauty, Glamour UK and Vogue UK. Samantha was named one of 2014 City Pages “Artists of the Year” and 2016 Best of the Twin Cities “Best Fashion Show”, Reader’s Choice “Best Local Fashion Designer” and 2020 Reader’s Choice “Best Local Fashion Designer.” In 2015 she authored and illustrated a how-to book on subculture fashion design called Steampunk and Cosplay Fashion Design and Illustration. Samantha was a contestant on season 16 of Lifetime’s Project Runway.

06/03/2026

Oh my gosh this came up in conversation recently and I figured I would share this blast from the past! They used outtakes from break time and my home visit to make a Project Runway/Dixie commercial. We joke that this was my husband's television debut and he likes to jokingly brag about it.

05/16/2026

It took me a little longer than I had hoped but I got all of the first round of Monstera capelets sent out! Our dog got injured and our toddler has been resisting naps so things have been a little bit chaotic 😅 Growing pains! Anyway, I really appreciate everybody's patience and I hope you have a fun time running around the woods in your capelets. I'm open for orders again and I did preemptively make a few so that I can stay ahead of the curve. They are made to order so just know that it is a waiting period that is on the listing. 🌱 Get yours here :https://www.samantharei.com/shop
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Thank you to my two beautiful clients for sending me these joyful videos! is wearing the children's version (which is bigger because it's meant to be a cape for a kiddo) with a Renaissance festival look and is wearing the grown up version with her cute pink dress.

05/05/2026

Episodes 1 through 3 today, episode 4 tomorrow 🙏🏾

04/28/2026

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03/19/2026

All right pals, monstera cape and capelet are up for sale. It comes in two sizes, kids and adults. The kids size is more of a cape depending on what size your kid is. My kid is two. The adult size is more of a capelet and is based on a size 18 dressform.

https://www.samantharei.com/shop/p/monstera-cottagecore-witch-capelet

03/18/2026

I was just going through some of Mr Max's books to pull for a virtual community story time and just realized this book he got for Xmas is by the insanely phenomenal concept artist from Sinners . I'm so excited about my little guy's growing book collection.

03/11/2026

The world is a nightmare and I'm in panic mode trying to figure out how to get these bills paid but I took some time off to make something whimsical for my kid. My husband is obsessed with it and said I should make them in adult sizes so I'm giving myself the afternoon to work on that today. Let me know what you guys think. If there's interest I'll put up a pre-order and if not I won't beat myself up because at the end of the day I made something beautiful for my son and I made my son and he's beautiful.

Happy run-on sentence to all those who celebrate!

02/13/2026

Talking about clothing, community and feelings

01/24/2026

A “DAY OF RECKONING & RETRIBUTION” was the promise Donald Trump made to Minnesota, though it remains unclear who or what required avenging. Somali immigrants, we were told, were “garbage” perpetrators of a billion-dollar fraud, but the vast majority of accused Somalis in Minnesota are citizens, which is to say this is not a problem that can be addressed by the 2,000 DHS agents who arrived there around January 5 and who, within 48 hours, had shot a woman in the face. A thousand CBP agents landed after that.

In mid-January, the number of federal officers in the Minneapolis–St. Paul area stands at nearly double that of regular police, and five years post–George Floyd, local law enforcement and their most progressive critics may agree on at least this: ICE is a threat to the city.

It is the misfortune of Minnesota’s ICE contingent to have invaded the state with the second-highest levels of social trust. Many activist networks were formed in 2020; we are seeing Minnesotans call upon the “muscle memory” of the George Floyd protests, Junauda Petrus, the poet laureate of Minneapolis, says.

In mid-January, a neighborhood organization put out a call for a meeting to organize a “Neighborhood ICE response”; more than 800 people showed up at the local elementary school and formed a tidy line spilling well beyond the door. Close neighbors met one another and formed hyperlocal Signal groups. At the first sighting of an agent, someone could ping the group and draw them outside. Their favored tactic was noise. They would make it impossible for ICE to conduct raids in secret.

Kerry Howley spends time with the Minnesotans fighting back against Trump’s ICE invasion: https://nymag.visitlink.me/ksDR98

01/23/2026

I'm self-employed so me going to work or not doesn't really affect anything, but I'm staying home with my toddler and shouting about farm animals and school buses, then posting stuff that matters while he naps. If you go outside today please make sure that you are prepared for the insanely cold temperatures. With the wind chill it's going to feel like the -40s so be careful, be safe and be brave. Love you guys.

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http://www.samantharei.com/

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