Muse Statement
My muse is my cousin Georgia Bakewell who is 12 years old. She is currently in year 6 at Queenwood School for Girls. She has a smile that lights up the room and is always full of energy. She is extremely organised as she lives a very busy life. She plays hockey, tennis and cricket and she does dance, swimming and gymnastics. The two types of dance she does are Jazz and Ballet. She loves being active and outdoors. As Georgia is always going from one activity to another she always needs to be prepared.
While busy with school work and all the extracurricular activities she does, she also is a very social person. Constantly making new friends and spending time with them. She is a very effervescent person who always makes the most of everything.
She lives in Seaforth and loves to go to the beach. We have a holiday house up the coast at North Haven that is owned by our grandparents that we all share. Our family has been going to North Haven for many generations, so much so that we think of it as a second home and that we are locals even though we don’t live there. At North Haven there are beautiful beaches, a mountain covered in Australian bush and a river that we go boating and fishing on. Georgia loves to go up there as often as possible, especially in the summer. She loves to relax on the beach and go fishing with her father.
As the middle child Georgia has an older sister and younger brother. She also has a dog called Poppy who she loves very much. However her favourite animal is the crocodile. Her favourite colour is green, and she has a casual fashion style which includes lots of colours and print which reflect her bright personality.
Research Statement- Limitism: Future Heirlooms
The theme of limitism is about limiting global waste through valuing materials. This can be done by creating garments with meaning behind them such as future heirlooms. An heirloom is a valuable object that has belonged to a family for several generations. By creating garments which tell a family history, it will be valued highly and passed through generations.
I have selected the theme of limitism and have decided to look at it through the lens of future heirlooms as I have always been fascinated with history and traditions. I love learning about history and the way things used to be done. I also am interested in comparing the way things were more highly valued in the past than they are today such as lace.
Some common family heirlooms are furniture and jewellery as these items when looked after properly can survive through many generations of people. They are also generally of a high quality and price. Often family heirlooms can have family crests or other representations of lineage on them. Through researching my own family history on my mother’s side, by talking to my grandparents and going through documents they have about our family history, I have decided to create a future heirloom based on this history and tradition.
Through researching my family history, I discovered that I am related to the convict John Armstrong who got sent to Australia on the Hillsborough for stealing a pound of indigo. I also discovered that I am part of the Murray Clan and have some samples of the Murray tartan. Over the years I have been given many pieces of lace that have come from various branches of my family. I would like to combine these three elements of my family history with my own sense of style and things that matter to me, to create a future heirloom.
The future heirlooms I create will need to reflect the busy lifestyle of the modern woman and be functional and aesthetic in many different scenarios from playing sport such as hockey to catching up with friends.
The target market of this collection is young women aged 15-35 who live busy, active lifestyles. They are going from a morning swim to lunch with friends to a game of tennis in the afternoon and out clubbing at night with other friends. I want to create future heirlooms that can be worn in everyday life and carry the story of past generations in them.
