Saida Bruce

TRACE-IN-TIME

Trace-in-Time is a design philosophy and process that helps create garments that hold emotional durability.

These garments have been shaped through the development of a design strategy, built from ‘Object Interviews’. This uncovering of identity has produced a solid foundation of empirical data that has helped justify each design decision. Every object (garment) has been examined and its history and physical appearance analysed and explained.

This methodology has taken steps that encourage constant reflection, creating a slower, more thoughtful approach to design. The trajectory of design and wear covers past, present and future.

Trace-in-Time mirrors and accentuates the attributes that people come to love about their clothes. Meaningful detailing and considered silhouettes are formed with strategically placed layers of printed fabrics, intending to portray the physical aging, to communicate the wearers’ life experiences. The evolving piece offers surprises that mature and age in time with the owner, thereby creating a direct point of reference to the life of the garment.

The different people, different lives inside the garment act merely as custodians of the evolving piece. It holds their stories, handed from person to person, thus generating sentiment to the garment and an incentive to the user, enhancing its emotional content.

Photos by Sophie Allen http://www.sophieallenphotography.com