YR001 - MAIDENHOOD AND ITS LABORS

MAIDENHOOD AND IT'S LABORS; A DISSERTATION OF OUR WOMAN AND HER RELATIONSHIP TO INDUSTRY, OBLIGATION AND APHRODISIA. ⁠

WITH AN INQUISITIVE APPRECIATION OF AFTERMATH SOCIETIES AND THE CREATIVITY THAT THRIVES IN A POST-FALLOUT ECONOMY, THERE IS A PARTICULAR REVERENCE FOR HISTORY FROM WHICH THIS SEASON'S CHARACTER STUDY OF OUR WOMAN BEGINS. WHERE YEAR ZERO WAS BORN FROM A MOMENT OF COLLECTIVE ANXIETY, YEAR ONE ADDRESSES THE SYMBIOTIC TENSION OF WOMANHOOD AND THE CONFLICTING SCENARIOS OF LIFE. ECHOING THE PARADOXICAL UNDERSTANDING OF FEMININITY IN BYGONE ERAS, WE BEGIN TO CONSIDER HER MORE MODERN CHARACTERISTICS: GRITTY, FORTUITOUS AND INDUSTRIAL, ALL IN HER OWN RIGHT. SURFACE TREATMENTS AND DISTRESSED TECHNIQUES LIKE RUST BATHS, TEA STAINS, GRAVEL AND GRIT PROVIDE HISTORICAL CONTEXT FOR DESIGN REFERENCES WHILE PLACING THE
WORK BACK INTO SOCIETY THROUGH OUR LENS. THESE TREATMENTS ALSO CREATE A UNIQUE COLLABORATION WITH THE WEARER AND INITIATE A LIVING WORK OF ART, SHOWCASING THE TRUE MARKS OF AUTHENTICITY AND EMBRACING THE UNGLAMOROUS HAPPENSTANCE OF LIFE.