BODY AWKWARD/ DYSMORPHIC/ ASYMMETRIC. THEMES OF MUTABILITY/ DIS-COMFORT/ POWER/ CREATIVITY/ LOSS/ AMBITION.

Make them in black, because that’s where I’m at. I only want to wear black now. A carbon reduction. Everything else is for show. Use leftover, end of line, disastrous/rejected materials. Make things like your drawings. Cartoony. Fabrics cut across grain to create frump and blockiness. Seams the length of a pin so the dresses still look like toiles (which you much prefer). Kinetic! Don’t kill things by finishing them. Cut them from whatever remains from previous experiments and attempts - unpicked, remade. Confined by limitation, how far can you go?

Expose your shortcomings. Don’t attempt to hide any ugliness. Put it on display. It’s lovely. You strive to keep it amateur which takes a lot of restraint. You throw away more than you keep and then regret the lost forms you didn’t have the confidence to show. What’s wrong with unwearability? Who are these things for anyway? The fabrics are undesirable, but that’s the point.

You hate fashion and make notes on its corruptions. The dresses are meant to be quick fire, exclamation points. Anti-dotes to the disease of perfectionism. Instead they are a hard labour, detailed studies in dress forms. But still you keep on making them through a long winter.

Super avant classic. Hyper elegant.

So wonky, so perfect. Power shoulders. You’ve arrived.

Hand drawn, naively made (like Picasso was naive). Just the right amount of weird to be very classic.

You’d look good in a bag. Super chic. This one has 3 armholes.

I couldn’t stop until I made this dress. Channeled free-form magic. A one person party frock. That’s enough.