At twenty I moved to Miami to model — my first step toward creative life: image, performance, presence. I trained in film at the New York Film Academy to shape mood and story. In 2009 I founded AstaYoga in San Francisco, running it for over ten years as Founder, Owner, and Director — creating curriculum, hiring teachers, and certifying 300+ instructors. While leading the studio I earned a BFA in Fashion Design from the Academy of Art University, giving structure to my instincts. Since 2006 I’ve written and produced original music to express my inner life.
To call oneself an artist is an act of faith. It is a title earned through discipline, seriousness, and respect for those who came before. Born in Panama City and raised between cultures, I grew up in a lineage of painters, musicians, and writers. Creativity was familiar — but claiming it as vocation required proof.
about the artist
René Henley
Fashion Designer
Founder & Director
Born of the Journey
House of Henley synthesizes fine arts and fashion under my name — where narrative, interiors, photography, and object design converge. My work sits between realism and the surreal, architecture and emotion, cinema and structure. I favor atmospheres over products. Each piece carries lived fragments — deliberate paths, refined identities, reconstructed worlds. Nothing here is accidental; every step moves toward authorship. House of Henley is consolidation, not a beginning. I continue — with clarity and conviction.
