healthy clothing
This project was a leap of faith. The universe provided me with a clue and I had to prove I was listening.
After dreaming about a farmer wearing a white shirt with red polkadots, and wondering about the significance of the flamboyant farmer, I received, the next day, in my mailbox, a Vogue magazine with the exact shirt from my dream featured on the cover!
Deducting that a farmer symbolized tending growth and planting seeds. I took this as divine intervention, the seed catalogue for my next project. I decided to challenge myself to recreate the pages of the magazine that inspired me. The energy of the coincidence was too much to ignore. It felt insensitive not to follow my dream.
I cut out the pages of the magazine that sparked an emotion. Throughout this project my main objective was not to think and to let instinct and fate guide me. My design process was to look at the photograph then my fabric shelve. Pull fabrics that shared the feeling that the photo gave me and play around with shapes on my table until something clicked, then start cutting. There were a number of times when I would find fabric at the thrift store and later realize that it was the perfect color or print to represent the next picture in the series. Sometimes I was inspired by what the model was wearing, sometimes it was the play between the colors in the photo, sometimes it was shape or contrasts.
I’ve included the magazine pages that have inspired the shirt in this photo representation. I have a gut feeling that this project is not finished. It feels like there is still an energy left to pass along. The idea came to me unexpectedly and perhaps will bump into another in a similar fashion. If you are a maker or producer of ideas and would like to use these shirts, please contact me!