Worlds That Never Were.
Thesis Collection
Worlds that never were is a conceptual collection about the constant fight of reality and dreams. Children are told to dream big because the possibilities are endless. As adults, we are told to stay confined to black and white boxes, because the once innocent dreams of our childhood are not fit for the reality of the real world. This collection is about breaking out of that box; it's about the destruction of innocence and the fight to keep it; merging reality with dreams.
The collection features a variety of detailed elements including hand embroidery and embellishments, free motion embroidery, handmade flowers, template-cut butterflies, and feathers.
“If you awaken from this illusion and you understand that black implies white, self implies other, life implies death, you can feel yourself - not as something unprobational, not as something that has arrived here by fluke - but you can begin to feel your own existence as absolutely fundamental.”
“When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a million pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.”
“Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.”
Photographed by: Brittany Shore and Karan Mathur
Modeled by: Maria Savoy, Lauren Long, Grace Andrews, Lindsey Didsbury, Jackie Chamberlain, Bryelle Muller, and Jaclyn Fotch