Fashion Studio – Text + Fashion

When brief of incorporating into some thing wearable came to me, I was leaning towards using words to describe the emotions and the headspace that I was in/am in. Using text for other reasons; decorative, political messaging, definitely crossed my mind, however, wanting to use text in line with my inwards feelings was felt more than appropriate.

I had spoken to Andrea about the project and she mentioned using the bathrobes that I’ve been wearing everyday, and developing them into a project. The idea was rather appealing to me but as I started planning things out, I didn’t feel particularly passionate about it.

Music has been a major part the past 5 months that I’ve been isolating and a song in particular has been on repeat. ‘Surrender’ by NF.

When brainstorming for materials to use for the project, I had found a roll of compostable bin liners that I had bought to place my worn clothes into. There was still a substaintial number of bin liners, I went ahead with them.

Music has been a major part the past 5 months that I’ve been isolating and a song in particular has been on repeat. ‘Paralysed’ by NF.

Thereby, I cut and opened the bin liners up into a large rectangles and haphazrdly wrote the lyrics of ‘Paralysed’ on them while listening to the song.

I then started manipulating them by cutting out circles to act as armholes and putting them on my body and photographing them.

 

Gradually, as I cut, strecthed the bin liners, a silhouette began to take place. The pieces were fastened to the body with knots. The bin liners that were not written on instead were manipulated by stretching them.