New Silhouettes, Artwalk, and Stuff!

I just dropped off new garments at Cocoon Gallery this weekend. Crisscross Jumper, Wilkinson Jacket, Angie’s Vest, oh my. AND I’ve been accepted into Boylan Heights Artwalk, December 4. It’ll be the first show I’ve done since 2020.

New Image Studio just finished shooting a few of these garments; check them out in the gallery!

Here’s a look at some pieces in progress and some candid working shots Jon took when I wasn’t paying attention…

feral girl fall

finally colder weather. i am swingin in the studio preparing for my winter line, feeling right post-apocalyptic, and swooning with inspiration over Michael Wilkinson’s wardrobe for the movie Noah.

Here’s a peek at what’s prototyping on my mannis…

OMFV I got a mini printer

GAME CHANGER. When I started documenting my experiments, I did so on tiny hang tags. I moved too fast to really document shit. But eventually I HAD to do it so I didn’t reinvent the wheel with every experiment.

Tiny hang tag schematics turned into half-page made-up shorthand. I told myself, write as if you’re explaining it to someone who doesn’t know.. but in shorthand. More and more I documented my process, eventually to the point that I began to write a new pattern for every garment I made, regardless of the “master” pattern, so I could innovate and change directions.

My documenting has slowly evolved since 2016. I now have a fairly strict “style guide” for explaining to my future self what my former self was doing.

Here comes the game changer, 2022. A MINI PRINTER. Holy fucking Vishnu. No longer do I have to comb through my patterns scanning shorthand, I have a fucking photo for EVERY garment.

I’m trying a few different printers with quite different results, but even the worst prints are better than NO prints.

Lyocell Landing

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Debbie delivered 24 skeins of her hand-dyed lyocell about a week ago and I was so excited to work it I didn’t really get a proper photo! Debbie got some great process photos, thankfully!

Lyocell is my favorite fiber to work with and wear. It’s a semisynthetic made of wood pulp, invented in Enka, NC in 1972. It is a closed loop process with recycled elements and is not harmful to the environment as other synthetics are. The drape and sheen are silk-like, but different. It takes color like a sponge.

I put a simple, symmetrical palette together for summer, based on my Aimee Tee, but with a
Vneck.

And I had a shitload dyed black, because: black.

I write a new pattern for every garment I make. I deviate from the “original” (if there is?) silhouette for every version because I always want to try something different, something new. I change direction in the middle of a piece sometimes because I am inspired with a new idea. It is terrific fun to trust the process, excited that elements of the process are chance and random. And of course, the Aimee Tees are all reversible.

I am 4.5 garments into a 10-garment line for summer. Stay tuned to Instagram for more process and teasy photos! Find these at Cocoon Gallery in Late June 2022.

Love, Eris