Skip to content

Keyword

Social Fabric: Stories from the Worn Archive

Start Date 05 June 2021
End Date 06 June 2021
Venue Arbour Youth Centre
Location London, UK
Curator Pa/Do Curatorial
Installation in hues of dark blue, and pale pink. Several flat lays of installations placed around the floor.
Orange and white cards with exhibition text.
A pile of blue denim textile on an orange card.

About Worn Workshop

Co-founded by Abigail Jubb and Morag Seaton, Worn produces creative projects about people’s relationships with their clothing. In April 2020, Worn began collecting and sharing the stories of our clothes and concepts from identity to sustainability. This work has since developed through their production of a series of Worn projects as well as commissions for fashion industry, education, community, arts and culture contexts, including: research, workshops, interviews, talks, consultation, publications and storytelling. All of these outcomes contribute to the Worn Archive: an ongoing collection of clothing stories. This, in turn, informs and inspires all of Worn’s future projects, which share insights that can change the way we design, make and wear clothes.

Worn challenges negative fashion cultures through new approaches by celebrating the stories of our clothes, so that more of them will become worn.

About Stories From the Worn Archive

 Stories From the Worn Archive is an installation about clothing and storytelling curated by Worn Workshop from contributions to the Worn Archive: an ongoing collection of stories about people’s relationships with their clothes.

Collected throughout Worn’s 2020/21 programme of interactive workshops, interviews and projects, each story depicts experiences with clothing and is exhibited through garments and text as documented by Worn. Together, as a collection, these stories tell of the often conflicting roles of clothes in our personal lives and society, as objects we experience physically, emotionally and situationally through everyday acts of wear, as they become worn over time. Through this first physical exhibition from the Worn Archive, the installation brings together the material and biographical experience of clothing to showcase how the ordinary garments within all of our wardrobes can become repositories for extraordinary personal stories with universal resonance.

www.wornworkshop.com

@wornworkshop

Images courtesy of Sophie Cunningham.