REDRESSING THE LAND: Flax, wool & the memory of a working landscape.

Category: Apparel

Redressing the Land is a collaboration between two designers reimagining what fashion could be. Not as trend or commodity, but as care, as kinship, as a living system stitched into soil. This project is born from grief and hope. Grief for landscapes stripped by industrial agriculture, for fibres replaced by fossil fuels, for rural knowledge lost in the churn of fast fashion. And hope. Hope that we can remember what it means to make clothes that belong to place. Clothes with memory and honesty, shaped by soil-stained hands. Together, we’ve worked with flax and wool. Two fibres grown from the land and long neglected by it. We’ve studied their stories, tended them and honoured their ecological roles. Our garments are shaped by shepherds and soil, by mourning and repair, by a deep desire to reconnect people with the fields that once clothed them. This is not another aesthetic nod to “sustainability.” This is not about styling a better version of the same broken system. Our materials are hand-processed, home-grown, raw, imperfect. That is the point. There is beauty in fibre before it is bleached and spun and made invisible. This is not a costume. This is not a concept. This is fibre in service to land. This is design as remembrance, resistance and repair.

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