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DESIGN & FABRICATION

Summer, 2015.  Parsons School of Design.  Fashion: Design & Construction. The final assignment was to create a complete garment “inspired by New York.”

 

 

 

I had been watching a lot of documentaries on North Korea (essentially the opposite of New York!) and was struck by the driving social force that is the North Korean black market, and the daring, exciting--and from our American perspective-- seemingly heroic people who partook in it. This spawned an idea for an alternate universe, totalitarian distopia version of New York during the art deco era, and a woman who was queen of its black market

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