Word: fabrications
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...family of seamstresses, I was always told that you never make anything without a pattern. But I hate patterns, so I don’t use them,” says Choi. Her preference is clear on the first day of the challenge; she skips the fabric store and heads to Urban Outfitters, where she hopes to find several existing garments that she can rip apart and reconstruct into a new piece...
...work she does. Midway through the morning, Smith has already cut her lady-bug dress in half to make a shirt and skirt. She sews the cotton filler into the hem of the skirt and folds the fabric over, causing it to flare out sharply. Using her thick grey thread, she bunches up the material to create a curtain-like, drappage look...
...hand, Baird then searches for the fabric that will make up the rest of the dress. Designing without a sketch, but with the colorful bikini fabric to work with, Baird looks for a solid color to make up the bottom half of her creation. After aT ride to Chinatown, Baird, after a long search, finds a deep purple fabric for the dress and gauze for the straps for about 14 dollars...
Frommer hits the Salvation Army and Goodwill stores next. She picks up a pinstripe skirt, an Isaac Mizrahi button-down, and an enormous pair of pinstripe pants. “Size doesn’t matter, all I’m looking for is fabric,” Frommer says. Resembling a stylish Saint Nick, Frommer returns to Eliot House hauling an over-stuffed plastic...
...hours later, bits of pinstriped fabric are strewn across her floor...