I just graduated from my All I want for Christmas is You Mariah T-Shirt . MA at the Royal College of Art in Fashion. It’s an MA in fashion, but I specialized in “FAME,” which stands for: footwear, accessories, millinery and eyewear. I wanted to study this because I wanted to carry on my practice as a shoemaker, but I also wanted to explore different methods. For my latest collection, “Hot Girls Hike,” I really tried to dive into using footwear as a material commentary to explore female hiking experiences. This means using things like hot water bottles, tents, discarded parachutes and kites to reimagine them as shoes to broaden the horizons of what female footwear could look like. Where do you source your materials? The majority of the things I use are post-hiking waste materials, which are found on British hiking trails.
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Alternatively, I ask my hiking community to donate materials to me All I want for Christmas is You Mariah T-Shirt . I’ve also used random materials, like the orange ripstop fabric from RÆBURN‘s sample sale. Being a footwear designer, I don’t need to use much in terms of material, so I can often use scraps and other people’s waste.I would really like to have a long-standing collaboration with a company that specializes in outdoor materials and work in its waste department. This could be looking at things that are still within the hiking realm and the community of people who want to embrace the outdoors, but also maintaining the importance of sustainable practices within the fashion industry. Material wise, I’d like to use anything that can be repurposed and recycled. For this current collection, my favorite material was a hot water bottle. I really enjoyed the material challenge of that and through the process of development, I learned how to work with it as a material with different glues and construction methods. Using non-traditional shoe materials with traditional shoemaking techniques is a duality that I enjoy. I’d love to new materials with traditional shoe making techniques to carry on the longevity of being a shoemaker and also being a shoemaker in London, because though it’s not a dying trade, it’s not a super common profession.
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