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Fashion symbolizes time, undergoing transformation as spring goes and summer comes, followed by autumn and then winter. However, propelled by fast fashion, fashion season changes every seven days.
Within an air-conditioned room and in the face of global warming, we all forget to explore the odor of the seasons.
The turning wheel of fashion accompanies our growth and experience, during which some clothes are insignificant while some elicit an understanding smile or even silent tears.
Each and every piece of clothing corresponds to an imprint of a time period, resembling a calendar that resides within the wardrobe.

SLOW STiTCH NOMAD @ Oi! / 13.11.2022 - 12.05.2023

A participatory art project to reconnect people, hands and stories through collecting Hong Kong stories and transforming them into embroideries on pieces of upcycled wearable art.

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Fashion Clinic by Toby Crispy
TRANS-FORM by redesigning wearable stories
TRANS-VALUE by repairing your valuables
TRAN-SCRIPT by recording your mind with needle

Upcycled textile installation for "Yet Another Dream" / 2021.11
A few hundred yards of fabric from used bedsheets and curtains of Eaton Hotel were transformed into a
12M x 12M x 5M installation for "Yet Another Dream", a collaboration between composer/music director Fung Lam and visual artist/director Another Mountain Man (Stanley Wong).
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Collaborative wearable art for M+ Museum Shop / 2021.11
Responding to Hong Kong female artist, Sara Tse's works, the flowers on the floral dress from Sara are cut out and put together with other old fabrics and her ceramic fragments into 30 new combinations.

Interview in 美紙

New Balance "Retro Futurism" exhibition / 2021.09-10
100+ off-season products have been upcycled into 100 bento bags as gifts with purchase and combined with the old showpieces of Hong Kong singer-songwriter Candy Lo into 2 wearable artworks.

Patagonia "Recrafted" exhibition + "Worn Wear" service / 2021.10
5 pieces of Patagonia defected samples are transformed into multi-styled refashion pieces and 71 pieces of wearable stories have been refashioned within those 7 days.

A summer-like spring in 2020, amidst the baffling pandemic.
Cherished in the wardrobe is my father’s collection of finely made suits. I flipped one overs, and realised that, a long long time ago, he already wore Céline.
My father passed on to me his taste for quality. I stitched his deep regard to what is valuable onto where close to the heart. May he live on with me forever.

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Photography by Phoebe Wong Hoi San

A summer-like spring in 2020, amidst the baffling pandemic.
Cherished in the wardrobe is my father’s collection of finely made suits. I flipped one overs, and realised that, a long long time ago, he already wore Céline.
My father passed on to me his taste for quality. I stitched his deep regard to what is valuable onto where close to the heart. May he live on with me forever.

TobyCrispy

Photography by Phoebe Wong Hoi San

A summer-like spring in 2020, amidst the baffling pandemic.
Cherished in the wardrobe is my father’s collection of finely made suits. I flipped one overs, and realised that, a long long time ago, he already wore Céline.
My father passed on to me his taste for quality. I stitched his deep regard to what is valuable onto where close to the heart. May he live on with me forever.

TobyCrispy

Back in the summer of 2010, I bought this dress from GF Ferré for a wedding. Having witnessed the break up of the couple afterwards, the dress faded and becomes last-seasoned.
It seems that the good and everlasting easily slip away. All I hope is to preserve what was once loved with small changes.

See

Photography by Phoebe Wong Hoi San

Back in the summer of 2010, I bought this dress from GF Ferré for a wedding. Having witnessed the break up of the couple afterwards, the dress faded and becomes last-seasoned.
It seems that the good and everlasting easily slip away. All I hope is to preserve what was once loved with small changes.

See

Photography by Phoebe Wong Hoi San

Back in the summer of 2010, I bought this dress from GF Ferré for a wedding. Having witnessed the break up of the couple afterwards, the dress faded and becomes last-seasoned.
It seems that the good and everlasting easily slip away. All I hope is to preserve what was once loved with small changes.

See

Winter, 15 October 2012
The coat set I had been longing for finally arrived!
It was slightly oversized. I altered it with my “maverick” sewing skills! So thrilled that I made it!
Just treat it with care Any clothes will become one of a kind!

Kero

Photography by Phoebe Wong Hoi San

Winter, 15 October 2012
The coat set I had been longing for finally arrived!
It was slightly oversized. I altered it with my “maverick” sewing skills! So thrilled that I made it!
Just treat it with care Any clothes will become one of a kind!

Kero

Photography by Phoebe Wong Hoi San

Winter, 15 October 2012
The coat set I had been longing for finally arrived!
It was slightly oversized. I altered it with my “maverick” sewing skills! So thrilled that I made it!
Just treat it with care Any clothes will become one of a kind!

Kero

I bought this shirt in autumn 2006. It is not particularly memorable and is worn out now. I once thought of disposing it but decided not to because it is comfortable and fits me well.
I might have changed my image because of work, fashion trends or someone I loved. But this shirt still suits me best.

Karen Lee

Photography by Phoebe Wong Hoi San

I bought this shirt in autumn 2006. It is not particularly memorable and is worn out now. I once thought of disposing it but decided not to because it is comfortable and fits me well.
I might have changed my image because of work, fashion trends or someone I loved. But this shirt still suits me best.

Karen Lee

Photography by Phoebe Wong Hoi San

I bought this shirt in autumn 2006. It is not particularly memorable and is worn out now. I once thought of disposing it but decided not to because it is comfortable and fits me well.
I might have changed my image because of work, fashion trends or someone I loved. But this shirt still suits me best.

Karen Lee

My relative bought me this jacket and the jeans in autumn 2015. I bought myself this T-shirt in 2018. However, I have never worn them as they are stained.
Concerned about worsening environmental pollution, I have switched to a minimal lifestyle and learnt to declutter. I reexamine my wardrobe, and stop buying unnecessary clothes.
Lately I am picking up sewing. I am inspired to remake old clothes and give them a second life.

Jim

Photography by Phoebe Wong Hoi San

My relative bought me this jacket and the jeans in autumn 2015. I bought myself this T-shirt in 2018. However, I have never worn them as they are stained.
Concerned about worsening environmental pollution, I have switched to a minimal lifestyle and learnt to declutter. I reexamine my wardrobe, and stop buying unnecessary clothes.
Lately I am picking up sewing. I am inspired to remake old clothes and give them a second life.

Jim

Photography by Phoebe Wong Hoi San

My relative bought me this jacket and the jeans in autumn 2015. I bought myself this T-shirt in 2018. However, I have never worn them as they are stained.
Concerned about worsening environmental pollution, I have switched to a minimal lifestyle and learnt to declutter. I reexamine my wardrobe, and stop buying unnecessary clothes.
Lately I am picking up sewing. I am inspired to remake old clothes and give them a second life.

Jim

Summer, 2015
I bought this dress hastily after my luggage went missing during a trip. I wore it almost daily throughout the whole journey. Although it is full of memories, after the trip I have left it in my closet and never worn it again.
Recently, I rediscovered this dress when I was cleaning out my wardrobe. It summoned up memories of the trip. I thought, how about embellishing it with stories of my journey?

Ichi Chan

Photography by Phoebe Wong Hoi San

Photography by Phoebe Wong Hoi SanSummer, 2015
I bought this dress hastily after my luggage went missing during a trip. I wore it almost daily throughout the whole journey. Although it is full of memories, after the trip I have left it in my closet and never worn it again.
Recently, I rediscovered this dress when I was cleaning out my wardrobe. It summoned up memories of the trip. I thought, how about embellishing it with stories of my journey?

Ichi Chan

Photography by Phoebe Wong Hoi San

Summer, 2015
I bought this dress hastily after my luggage went missing during a trip. I wore it almost daily throughout the whole journey. Although it is full of memories, after the trip I have left it in my closet and never worn it again.
Recently, I rediscovered this dress when I was cleaning out my wardrobe. It summoned up memories of the trip. I thought, how about embellishing it with stories of my journey?

Ichi Chan

All photography by Phoebe Wong Hoi San

To be continued...

Time Wardrobe / 2020
20 moving Trans-fashion stories were exhibited at Oil Street Art Space.

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