From the brief:
“My ideas do not come from thin air, they come from intellectual curiosity, from digging into the past, from comparing one thing with another and so you get perspective and insight. And then you start putting things together in a way that nobody did before, even though the elements were there all the time. This is the creative process and it comes from tradition and technique.”
- Vivienne Westwood quoted in Jane Mulvagh, 1999,
Vivienne Westwood; an Unfashionable Life, p 273
In asking the question: ‘What is tailoring today?”, this studio immerses students in the origins and traditions of the tailoring craft, analyses it within a modern fashion discourse and considers the potential for innovative future applications. Form and function fuse with craft and innovation!
The tailored jacket as the archetypal garment form, is proposed as a lens through which to re‐assess the dominant ‘fast fashion’ system. In following the evolution of the jacket from bespoke to mass market, opportunities to re‐visit and re‐invent traditional modes of fashion production are explored as the handmade collides with the machine made and the individual is multiplied.
Sartorial Integrity considers:
- the artisanal craft of tailoring, within a slow fashion context;
- the creation of sculptural form;
- modern aesthetics fused with an enduring legacy;
- creative relevance.
Focus is on creative exploration, technical perfection and design longevity.
“...Tailors elevated the unfitted rough country coat into a triumph of art, whereby crude natural man became noble natural man, with references to ancient sculpture built into the structure of his clothes. With the help of nearly imperceptible padding, curved seams, discreet darts and steam pressing, the rough coat of dull cloth was gradually refined into an exquisitely balanced garment that fitted smoothly without wrinkles and buttoned without strain, to clothe what appeared to be the torso of a Greek athlete.”
- Anne Hollander, 1994 Sex and Suits, p. 90
Clementine - Editor
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