WE INHABIT

This collection aspires to celebrate new possibilities of storytelling through fashion. Trapping garments inside transparent architectural structures ‘WE INHBIT CLOTHES LIKE WE INHABIT BUILDINGS’ parallels clothing and shelter. Architects in the Brutalist movement developed works that ignited controversy due to their individuality. Many claimed the massive structures “bully them into submission” and use of cement reflected the poverty of the time. The cheap material became an outlet of freedom for designers and Brutalism grew into an attempt to create ethic, rather than aesthetic. Its malleability and price created intimidating geometric sculptures people could live in. In an attempt to narrate a similar story I use denim to parallel the accessibility of cement while still creating a powerful collection, with overbearing geometric shapes. An element that unsurprisingly makes these structures less defiant are windows by proving there’s life inside. I use transparent acrylic planes to symbolize clothing as a shelter while still creating unexpected silhouettes in which the clothing is trapped under. ‘WE INHBIT CLOTHES LIKE WE INHABIT BUILDINGS’ attempts to tell the story of clothes as shelter while provoking a feeling similar to Brutalism.