This mini collection is another step in the continuous world building I’ve done throughout each set of garments. These garments blend together the idea of surplus military garments and vintage workwear with my own design language. It’s about designing for the future by looking towards the past. One of the greatest tasks handled was being able to interpret the sketch and along with the know-how, to be bring those designs to life. I played around with this idea of durability and delicateness, heavy and light, and innovation with tradition. There are numerous minute details that build onto this foundation to create something that seemed familiar but wasn’t upon closer inspection. Following this idea of resistance and war, the vintage military accessories picked were paired with the designs to help the audience imagine a dystopian world in which these garments exist.

Every part of the garments was carefully chosen to become yet another important characteristic of each, such as thread color and fabric weight and type. Once again these fabric choices and colors have a certain harmony to them, having existed along each other in past workwear but this time they’re presented in a shifted context.

These intensely specific garments and details took an enormous amount of time to pattern, to sew prototypes, to fit and then to sew the final garments. The garments themselves are ultimately complemented by each wearer and the stories that from alongside them.