The Dublin Soceity of Poplin SewersSurviving Weimar Look Book
Synchronized Sewing Squad
SL MODE: One Size Fits All
A garment production facility and retail shop, creating a space of interaction between the audience (those who entered the shop) and myself. Experiences of engagement provided me with opportunities to be sensitive to the community’s interests. My choices in design, construction and textiles allowed the garments produced to commemorate the Lost Generation of textile workers, and reflect on current immigration/race relations and the nostalgia for communist times. The image displays the Shop location; storefront window text and scrubbing the white wash off the walls to reveal the former East German colors. Fabrics and supplies used in the construction were scavenged from the street, thrift stores, donations from local textile factories and East German children’s company sewing machine, dress form re-constructed from bed pads to be my body shape, barrowed mirrors and display materials.
41 Graben Strasse, Weimar Germany. June 2006.
