Connections
The link between a person and a garment can never be planned for, but has lasting impact when a garment becomes a life-long companion. It reveals the potential for change in each individual and often marks that in the associations with a piece, for single, small actions can have big effects.
Printed linen childhood
“I made my dress from a linen tablecloth. I found it at a flea market
ten years ago. And I just knew I had to have it… as a tribute to my
mother because I grew up in the ‘70s and in the ‘70s you had all the
Nylon and crimplene... But that never came into our house because she
was very much into wool and linen and silk. When I found this it
reminded me so much of my childhood because the colour palette is very
‘70s but also it’s linen and it’s a very strict graphic pattern. So a
year, two years ago I turned it into a dress. I kept this tablecloth
with me for ten years... knowing that I have to turn it in to something,
but that I have to turn it into something that can stand the time
[today and the past].”
Oslo - March 2012
Photograph by
Kristin von Hirsch
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