Category: AD395

I’ve recently contacted her for a future collaboration. I’ve been looking for garments for photoshoots that I’m planning to do in the next semester. I found her work on Instagram and she happens to be a final year student in Brighton, which is perfect as it’ll be easier to contact her and see the garment and her other designs in person.

Grace has agreed for me to borrow this particular garment and was welcome to use any other garments if it is finished before the planned shoot.

What I really liked about the garment is the textures of the weaved and the raw edges of the ‘fraying’ plastic. Also it is not a garment that would be tossed in the bin. It is an art piece! Plastic scuplture.

‘Late Life’ dress made with found plastic materials that have biodegraded in nature. Possibly plastics that’s been around for years.

I love the textures that the plastic gives. The degraded parts makes it look delicate like it’s a high fashion couture dress. Usually when you find a biodegraded plastic in nature, it looks hopeless and just no use. And from the looks of it, the plastic found to create this dress cannot be recycled. So, it’s amazing how Helen Storey gave another life for these found materials.

I don’t think it’s a wearable piece seeing that it’s so delicate. It is more of a sculptural art work. A reminder of a worrying rate of plastic waste entering nature. Also, waste in the fashion industry – most of our clothes are made with plastic too!

This gives me an idea for the styling of my shoots for this project and also possibly be working with creatives that designs plastic garments and/or upcycled designs.

 

Garments and styling by Galatee Martin. Photographed by Olga De La Iglesia. A collective project for ‘The Plastic Kingdom’.  Imagining what the ‘people’ of The Plastic Kingdom’s fashion would be. These photos are giving me lots of ideas for a styling shoot by using actual plastic as garments. And they aren’t just put together last minute, Galatee Martin actually sewed the plastic together even doing techniques like shirring adding texture to the garment. I won’t have time create something like this but I will be contacting designers/creatives that uses this unconventional material to make their garments. Collaborating with designers would be a better choice.