Reinforced Construction
AUGUST BY MATTHEW MCPHERSON
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Design Statement
As fashion and design grow and emerge into the new age, it is important to acknowledge the ever changing factors of our world and create new and sustainable ways to adapt fashion. Patchworking can be traced back over 5000 years to the Egyptians (ISABELLA ROSNER, 2021) and has been used as an alternate source of reusing fabrics to fix clothing. Combining the sophistication of suiting with the utility of workwear and tactical inspired garments, offer a juxtaposition of traditional and Contemporary Reinforced Construction is inspired by the creation and utilisation of alternative methods such as recycling fabrics, patchworking, using second hand fabrics or peices that would otherwise be thrown out. Incorporating this idea with an androgynous sillouette inspired by my own journey of gender identity has allowed me to make designs that are inclusive of all people regardless of gender, sex or identity.
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Trend Research
Organic Heavy Weight Cotton
Fabrication
Sun Faded Italian Linen
Hessian Coffee Sacks
MATTHEW “AUGUST“ MCPHERSON FASHION DESIGN PATTERN MAKING GARMENT CONSTRUCTION CREATIVE DIRECTION STYLING PHOTOGRAPHY EDITING ILLUSTRATION
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS PHOTOGRAPHERS: NATALYA MUNRO JULIA LIANG ERIN CAMPBELL AMELIE SCALAS
STYLISTS: JULIA LIANG MODELS: ARMAN MARTIROSIAN HARRY THU TA SUMMER WANLESS DANIEL RILEY BENJAMIN ARUN SIVA CHRISTELLE T
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