Silver Lining: Lost and Found
This garment was the first-place winner of King’s Plaza x Parsons Recycle the Runway competition. My partner Bridget Campbell and I were assigned the category household items. Inspired when cleaning out the chamber of a vacuum and finding various lost items, we decided to center our garment’s theme around these miniature forgotten household items.
By placing these seemingly insignificant items in a new context, we can appreciate the beauty of the most minor details of our lives.
Collecting inspiration: Bridget and I visited Silverlens Gallery to see Nicole Coson’s exhibition, In Passing. Coson’s work very closely aligned with our team’s concept for our garment, so we were able to take away a lot of visual inspiration. Our idea of depicting materials that are not typically regarded as beautiful/important in an aesthetically pleasing fashion was reinforced after seeing this exhibition.
Nicole Coson, Untitled, 2024.
Nicole Coson, Some place, within here, 2024.
This garment is made with zero fabric: solely out of recycled materials. The straps and top consist of over 750 individual earring backs, hand strung, embroidered, and glued. The garment is filled with over 500 soda tabs, along with snaps, paper clips, safety pins, washers, nuts, screws, buttons, and other recycled items, some disassembled from pieces of jewelry we were given for the project.
Photos © 2024 Mia Gould
