FASHION
My research has focused on the visual design industry’s long surrender to consumer culture, and currently, its adoption of AI tools. I began sewing in March of 2025 to explore skill transfer for designers. How can we teach to revitalise and translate traditional design skills into utilitarian and evolutionary tools? When AI is exponentially moving into modern design practice, its foundations are vital, and its evolution is imperative.
I started with our wedding outfits, as our wedding was full DIY. Using primarily upcycled and discarded textiles for all my sewing, this is what has become:
I started with our wedding outfits, as our wedding was full DIY. Using primarily upcycled and discarded textiles for all my sewing, this is what has become:
A Denim wedding in Paris* attire—all denim pieces dyed, patterned, and constructed using the tools and skills of traditional graphic design. Sketch and process to final work (more photos to come and on wedding site)
*Kentucky
*Kentucky
Reclaimed* Denim Haori-inspired jacket
A haori is a traditional Japanese jacket historically worn over a kimono. It resembles a shortened kimono, originally worn by men in the Edo period. Women, and more specifically geisha, appropriated the garment as a kimono cover. It has inspired Japanese fashion for generations.
*The denim was set to be trashed because of a dye defect, in which the fabric bled a lot. I fixed the fabric with two stop dye solution baths, then a second indigo dyeing process.
*The denim was set to be trashed because of a dye defect, in which the fabric bled a lot. I fixed the fabric with two stop dye solution baths, then a second indigo dyeing process.
Upcycled denim sleeveless drop-shoulder hooded top
Work in progress: Dramatic pleat overalls (exercise in pleats and patterning)
Jersey and French Terry shirts
