FINAL GARMENTS
TO BE HUMAN
The most tragic irony of all human life is that the most humane of us must often be the most inhumane to survive. To embrace our innate darkness, we must stick to the shadows where we cannot be found.
TO BE A MONSTER
Horse Hair
A defining element utilized throughout the collection is the use of hair. Being able to be zig-zag stitched onto bias tape, horsehair mimics human hair and is thick enough to remain untangled when draped and stitched onto fabric, or when glued onto latex.
FABRICATION
PROCESS
From Concept Drawings to Finished Garments
COLLECTION STATEMENT
There are many reasons why we hide ourselves in darkness; why we seal up our bodies, decorating them in ways that many of you would find repulsive, and to some, attractive.
For many of us, we are beaten and bloodied, hung by the noose of human cruelty and violence.
You say that you do this to make us loveable: to make us human.
However, if to be human is to be a stitched up bloody body of civility and cruelty, then we must decline your invitation.
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We monsters have learned that to survive humanity, we must endure cruelty.
We are to be wicked things: flirting with horror, toying with its power.
We have learned that to be feared by you is so much safer than to be loved by you.
We have found beauty in your horror of the world.
The music of its screams.
The orchestra of its insanity.
What beautiful music it makes!
What things you fear that we use as adornment.
We have taken back our bodies, and indulge in the beautiful agony of select human company.
These humans are precious, and like gold, owe their value to their rarity.
Beware yourselves! Those made of human flesh, for through this tale of torment and tragedy, we monsters have learned but one honest truth: we dark few have a love in our hearts that many humans cannot imagine, and a rage that very few would believe. If we cannot satisfy one, we shall indulge the other. Love us but beware us; beautiful as we are, all roses have thorns, and all beasts have teeth.
LINEUP
CLO
Rendering and Pattern-making software for efficient production and creation
ARTWORK
created inspirational work and colors for later chemical appplication via liquid latex airbrushed on using solvent -based thinners and lasercut stencil work
THE TEXTILE LAB
Utilizing the Risd Museum, I was able to understand how fibers like horse hair could be sewn and glued to be used as adornment in clothing
Fabrics and Treatment
Choosing to work with latex was a huge learning curve and required a great deal of experimentation before being turned into final products. It cannot be sewn, only glued, which required reshaping the design process and how to drape and draft the material given its unique nature.
