The designers in How You Make It create not only new garment forms and new ways of wearing clothes, they develop new design systems. How You Make It explores artisanal fashion design practices that draw on traditional tailoring techniques to form contemporary collections. Here we encounter unique materials, tools, techniques and templates for making. In the finished garments we see the tangible results of considered choices about where, when and how to cut fabric. Existing garments are deconstructed: unpicked, reconfigured and reworked, using fine tailoring and conceptual templates in order to create a new style of clothing. These Australian conceptual fashion designers open a dialogue between craft and design that places the focus back on how and why objects are made.

How You Make It is accompanied by an exhibition catalogue and includes works from the following designers: Simon Cooper, Paula Dunlop, Ess.Laboratory (Hoshika Oshimi and Tatsuyoshi Kawabata), FORMALLYKNOWNAS (Toby Whittington), Anthea van Kopplen, MATERIALBYPRODUCT (Susan Dimasi and Chantal McDonald), Project (Kara Baker and Shelley Lasica) and S!X (Denise Sprynskyj and Peter Boyd).

Craft Victoria


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+ Fashion
+ Australian fashion
+ Fashion designer