State Of Our Union

Studying fashion design has been a fantastic way for me to process my creative and political ideas. Using print design as an expression for my beliefs and moral positions, I develop second-hand clothes into garments giving them an inspiring new life. My research explores historical events and current affairs. I work from collage to lino print and inbetween. I embody sentiments of British working life, protest and solidarity throughout my print and garments. Print is imperative to "political optics" and message sending; therefore I deploy it liberally in meaning and in fabrication. Using only second-hand garments, I have given new meaning to the traditional "Britishness" in order to reclaim patriotism from right-wing scaremongers, giving a new meaning: of unprejudiced inclusivity and solidarity, curating a look of 'diverse harmony' that exists within our union today.