knit wear
At the beginning of the knitwear semester, I was struggling to find inspiration because of various personal reasons, and I had this suppressed urge to explode both mentally and physically. While trying to capture this feeling through literal explosion, I created this fabric manipulation technique by stuffing stockings with blown balloons, I then pour and drizzle glue over them. After drying over night, I pop the balloons allowing the knit stockings to shrink and transform into fabrics with a beautiful ruching effect. I incorporated fabric using this technique for my cut & sew look.
For my machine knit look, I tried to imitate the same effect with the holding technique on the brother single bed machine.
models: Elizabeth M.
Aiala R.
photography: Matt Francis