Slow Stitch Nomad / 2020 - 2021

A project supported by Design Trust / MA Fashion at Hong Kong Polytechnic University / Viva Blue House

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The virus asks ‘What is home?’
Your answer is not a space full of materials, is it?
Home can be as simple as feeling safe and peaceful.

“Your true home is in the here and the now.
It is not limited by time, space, nationality, or race. Your true home is not an abstract idea.
It is something you can touch and live in every moment.”
- Thich Nhat Hanh
 

Amidst the confusion of 2020, I propped up the Slow Stitch Nomad shelter, hoping to construct an intimate

space without restriction of time and place, and to heal the soul with slow stitching.

 

Be a Slow Stitch Nomad,
Set up your home at heart anytime anywhere and find peace through remaking your preloved clothing.

Recall how our ancestors got here,
Relearn the skills they taught us and
Reserve what we shall pass to the future.
Slow down and stitch through time.

A virus divides us, a needle stitches us together.

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Slow Stitch Nomad / 2020.09

A redesign project with MA fashion students of Hong Kong Polytechnic University

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Despite the social separation, the virus is pushing us to re-imagine solutions in new ways.
To kick off the academic year of fashion design, Toby Crispy led the MA Fashion students who were staying in different places away from the campus, to make use of their old garments and the simple sewing tools around them to work on the redesign project. We discussed, developed, presented and shared with the world on Instagram with the hashtag #SlowStitchNomad on the Internet about our process of rethinking and redesigning fashion.