How you make it

Exhibitions

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How You Make It investigates the process behind some of Australia's leading artisan fashion design practices. Specifically, this special touring exhibition looks at garment construction as an idea while revealing how traditional highly-crafted tailoring techniques continue to shape contemporary clothing in often radically new ways.

Featured Artists

Simon Cooper

The Chromosewn series is a group of precisely tailored garments for the radically transfigured. Cooper’s longstanding interest in the variability of the...

Paula Dunlop

Dunlop explores the use of chance as a system for designing clothes. The deliberate staging of chance procedures to generate pattern shapes...

Ess. Laboratory

Ess. Laboratory combine two sets of unique skills – the tailoring skills of Oshimi with those of the visual artist and composer...

FORMALLYKNOWNAS

In How You Make It, three cross-over vests show the FORMALLYKNOWNAS (FKA) design process sourced from Whittington’s plain white pattern, the Classic...

MATERIALBYPRODUCT

Soft Hard Harder Dress Curtain is a culmination of ideas about technique and process. Through their label MATERIALBYPRODUCT (MBP), Susan Dimasi and...