Charlotte Susan Lamb 2023 Graduate Collection

A small token of love, embroidered with a modest poppy and cornflower, an ear of corn, positioned around the words ‘To my Dear Wife’, was the starting point for both my dissertation and final collection ‘A Stitch in – Time – Waits for No Man’. A redundant practice in the face of modern industrial production and historically constructed as a tool of heteronormative monitoring, this piece of cloth has resonance today, as fashion questions our understanding of gender and also the speed of the world around us

My final collection questions of the aesthetics of menswear, and craft ability to capturing of time.  The fabrics all salvaged from duvet covers, pillowcases and curtains, take inspiration from the soldiers’ ingenuity, and challenge the extractive and depleting consequences of fast fashion. These materials, that have already had a life in a home, are reimagined through the slow application of needle work. While the intricate construction folds a moment of masculinity from the past into the present.

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