The Anchor
Category: Apparel
Competitions: International
The Anchor is a project that aims to create a leather garment that becomes a staple in someone's wardrobe, With it's multi-functional pieces, this dress coat can become a jacket, a skirt and a bag individually depending on what the wearer needs. The idea started by what leather clothing represents to me: classic and powerful fashion. Leather is a comforting and warming material and I wanted to create a piece that can become a reference in someone's personal fashion not only because of its multi-functionality but because of its timeless design and colour, making it a piece that can be matched with many different clothing regardless of trends. Tis piece is inspired by outerwear, which has typically meant straight cutting lines on the garment to bring a sense of strength, which is often associated to masculinity, but for me strength is also represented in femininity which means softer lines and curves where angles should be on the garment. My design references for The Anchor come from 1960's mod fashion, as I believe that vintage fashion makes clothing look classic, the modernism and futurism of that decade influenced my design as well as the space age fashion from designers like Pierre Cardin and André Courrèges, where the curvy groovy lines that are in the dress coat are a reference to their futuristic fashion. I was inspired to use this style as reference because the theme of the competition highlights the future of fashion and I believe we are in a similar position that these designers were 60 years ago where the world was changing rapidly with new materials available and the whole fashion system was on the verge of something new, so I wanted to represent how I feel about the fashion industry by taking into account what other designers that have come before me have done when a big change like this was happening. Making a design that considers slow fashion in it is really important for me because I believe that we need a new structure in the fashion industry, it is not sustainable the amount of clothing it's producing and what goes to waste so this garment is meant to last a lifetime and the best part that it's material makes way for this to be possible. This project is called the Anchor because it can be that piece of clothing in someone's closet that always going to be there as a reference to the rest of the clothing and can actually be passed down to future generations
