Slow Fashion Season
I won 1st place in the Casual category of Slow Fashion Season‘s Student Sustainable Fashion Challenge, spring 2025.
As a finalist in this competition, I participated in an exhibition at the Hatch Art Gallery and a fashion show at the Museum of Anthropology.
Scroll below the photos to read the story behind the outfit!
Photos 1 & 2 by Bella Brough Photography
My vision was to design something that centres around t-shirt yarn but is delicate. T-shirt yarn is yarn I hand make by cutting up old t-shirts that are too worn or stained to go to the thrift store. It is robust and chunky and not typically used to make clothing, nevermind delicate clothing. Therefore, to balance it out I paired it with airy layers of scrap mohair I’ve been saving for years and some scrap ribbon. This outfit saves approximately 7 old t-shirts from being thrown in the garbage.
Knowing both that I wanted to create something delicate and that working with reused and scrap materials typically involves lots of colours, the aesthetic I decided on is coquette meets clown core. Bows and frills, the features of my pieces, lend themselves well to both aesthetics, while coquette embraces femininity, and clown core embraces exaggerated colours and silhouettes.
The non-handmade components of my outfit are the shoes, tights, and shorts, all of which are black to contrast with the handmade pieces. The shoes are vintage, the shorts are thrifted, and the nylon tights are from my old high school choir uniform from 8 years ago (I know–what quality nylons!).