In a collaborative effort, we organised our graduate runway, looking to think, construct and organise ourselves as a collective we worked together, playing on and building up our collective strengths and weaknesses. To the beat of a live dj set, the runway unravelled through the corridors and snaked outside as the models stalked their way through the crowds.
With special thanks to the wonderful hair and make up artist Pol Andrés Thió and effortless models Leilani, Achan and CC
Bespoke footwear Matea Gluščević, leather goods Venus Willendorf, hardware Bobby Corica, woven textile Jacqueline Stojanović
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A meditation on my collection during this process...
In aesthetics, the sublime is the quality of greatness.
A quality that can be experienced through tangible and intangible ways of seeing, feeling or believing but is unable to be measured or imitated.
This thing emanates a somewhat indescribable aura but to which you find yourself drawn, there is a tactility, be it a lustre, a softness or some kind of pleasure.
A collection of rather strange things is interesting, for what does one consider to be treasure, she answers me “They are rare”.
I look down.
The ring tab from a can with a pink sticker, the shoe laces removed from all the shoes at the front door, an unopened letter perforated with the hole punch lying beside it, my father's hanky.
Seemingly unspecial, but imbued with intangible memories and traces of physical touch, the beauty that characterises these magical objects is crooked, rustic and irregular - determined by traces of use and imperfection.
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