Wear something that means something.
Harrison New York was built on memory, love, and a jar of flowers that never left a Brooklyn windowsill. Two sisters. One shared story. A lifelong belief that the clothes you wear should mean something. Handmade in New York. Rooted in flowers. .
We're Anne & Kate, and this is our story
Our mother, Eleanor Harrison, gave thirty years of her life to a small flower shop in Brooklyn. She woke up before sunrise to receive deliveries. She stayed late to finish arrangements for weddings, anniversaries, and ordinary Tuesdays that someone wanted to make feel special. She knew the name of every bloom and the story behind every customer who walked through her door.
She was taken from us too soon. Suddenly. Without warning.
What she left behind — besides an ache that never fully goes away — was the understanding that flowers are a language. They carry grief and joy, celebration and silence, all at once. She spent her life speaking that language fluently. And without realizing it, she taught it to us too.
When she was gone, we asked ourselves one question: how do we keep her alive? Not in a frame on a wall. Not under glass. But out in the world, moving, living. So we put her language — her flowers — into something women could actually wear. That's how Harrison New York began. Not as a business idea, but as an act of love.
What We Believe
We believe a dress can carry a memory.
We believe flowers are never just decoration — they are meaning made visible. Our mother knew this better than anyone.
We believe in slow creation over fast production. In hands over machines. In intention over volume. And in sustainability not as a trend, but as a responsibility we inherited from a woman who spent her life caring for living things.
We believe that a woman over forty already knows what she loves. She has earned that knowledge. What she deserves is a brand that meets her there — with quality, beauty, and something that feels entirely her own.
This is that brand. Built for her. And always, in everything we make — for Eleanor.
A Living Legacy
Our mother spent her Saturday mornings kneeling in the soil of the Red Hook Community Garden in Brooklyn — surrounded by volunteers, by neighbors, by the kind of quiet community she believed in more than anything.
When she was gone, we couldn't let that place go. So we made it part of everything we do.
Eleanor never got to see what her daughters built in her name.
For every Harrison New York dress that finds a home, a real flower gets planted in the Red Hook Community Garden in Brooklyn. A real flower, in the ground, tended by the same volunteers who knew Eleanor — who show up every Saturday morning with gloves and watering cans and a love for this living space that no one ever had to ask for.
This is the Harrison Garden Initiative. It exists because a woman spent thirty years believing that beauty should be shared — in a bouquet, in a dress, in a garden that belongs to everyone.
