feetlips

Dear tumblr,

Graduation time is drawing near and my time at FIT comes to a bittersweet close.
Here I have met some of the greatest people… a group of creative, talented, hardworking, crazy, amazing, inspiring, hilarious, dedicated, caring wonderful beautiful people. Together we’ve spent 4+ years sacrificing all of our free time, money, the skin on our fingertips, precious hours of sleep, social life (ha! what social life?), sanity, health, and countless other things for the sake of our art. Together, we’ve spent long nights in the studio creating, crying, sewingsewingsewing, drawing, maybe huffing expensive art markers, hand sewing, seam ripping, embellishing, rendering, sharing, being there for eachother, and making amazing one-of-a-kind garments.

These gorgeous individual works of art that just sit in storage, in garment bags, shoved into closets, unloved, at the end of all this… left to never be seen as they were meant to be - IN MOTION. Something is missing for us.

To commemorate this shared experience of learning & growing together and finally making it to the end of our formal education, we have to let these creations shine and move and walk and stun and inspire an audience. We need to show everyone who we are and what we are capable of. We each have our stories to share…

Please help us reach our goal and put on an amazing show!!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1846214604/tomorrows-fashion-a-showcase-of-innovation-and-des-0

If you can’t donate, that is fine.. spreading the word is just as important! Please reblog this and when we reach our goal, I will personally mail 2 randomly chosen people original handpainted artworks of mine or whatever you want I don’t know what is a good incentive. A shirt? hm?

[[The above collage is a 6 month design process of early ideas I had and how they evolved into finished pieces. For more “stuff i make”, click my tag. The process involved sketching, rendering, draping, patternmaking, repeatedly dying & bleaching & overdying fabrics, designing prints & custom printing fabrics, cutting, sewing, handsewing, leather bonding, sewing sequins, punching grommets, having a few beers, fitting, adjusting, hoping, & sharing this time with the best people ever.]]

toss a few bits to the disgustingly talented Jewels and her classmates! you won’t regret it!