OPAL was started by designer Shae as a way to process her emotions after surviving a near-fatal stabbing. After literally being brought back to life, Shaley turned to art to cope. She has always been an artist, her father used to take her to buy colored pencils and paper when she was just five years old. The designs she created after the incident were an outlet for her pain, it was a way to heal. She began wearing her designs in public on tee shirts and strangers in the street would complement the work. She began her first original collection which debuted October 2021