life for rent

graduate collection

Free spirit.New beginnings.Lostness.Longing.Home.

My graduate collection explores searching for a home that doesn't yet exist — the pull between roots and freedom, expressed through wind, waves, and rock. The title borrows from Dido's "Life for Rent" (2003).

Fashion sketch of look 01, a long crochet dress with leather patches — 01

Fashion sketch of look 02, a knit dress with long fringes — 02

Fashion sketch of look 03, a knitted top with a layered fringe skirt — 03

Fashion sketch of look 04, leather vest and wide fringed pants — 04

Fashion sketch of look 05, a loose knit sweater with long leather straps — 05

Fashion sketch of look 06, crochet leather pants with a knitted top — 06

Six looks

Open sketchbook with leather colour swatches, braided cords and mohair fringe

Open sketchbook with braided yarn samples and crocheted circles

Sketchbook with samples

Look 02 | knit dress

Knitted swatches in beige and brown yarn with a cone of yarn

Open ladder knit on the knitting machine

Close-up of the needle bed of the knitting machine

Look 01 | crochet leather dress

Punched leather patches, mohair yarn and revolving punch pliers

First part of the dress, leather patches joined with crochet, lying on a wooden floor

The dress at half length lying on a wooden floor

The finished full-length crochet leather dress lying on a wooden floor

Mannequin with the first rows of crocheted leather patches at the hip

Mannequin with the dress grown up to the shoulder

Mannequin with the dress front nearly complete

Back view of the dress on the mannequin

The finished crochet leather dress on a tailor’s dummy

Look 01 | realisation process

The full collection: four models with two horses on a paddock in evening light — Full collection

Black and white photo of a model lying in hay in leather pants and vest — Look 04 | set leather pants and vest

Black and white photo of a model in the crochet leather dress sitting on a horse — Look 01 | leather crochet dress

Black and white photo of a model in the fringed knit dress, arms raised in a greenhouse tunnel — Look 02 | knit dress

Black and white close-up of four models in the collection leaning on a stable fence — All looks | close-up

Credits

Photography: Mike Narsesian
Models: Magdalena Gillhoff, Viktoria Abt, Uchenna Zoé, Coralie Brongkoll
Hair and make-up: Meisterschule Friseure München
Runway location: Bergson, München

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