Human Touch Clothing

 

Human Touch was  founded in 2023 by Juliet Seger, a tailor, clothing engineer and sustainability designer, and Christina Albrecht, from theoretical foundations, conceived of in 2020 during Juliet’s masters degree in Design for Change at Edinburgh Collage of Art. 

What started as a conceptual project has evolved into a brand, launching at Berlin Fashion Week in February this year. The brand aims to show the disconnect between the omnipresence of clothes and the production processes that are fundamentally powered by human labour. 

"Our design process is a very practical one. HUMAN TOUCH garments follow a normal sewing process with the difference that three to four times per minute the machinist dips her fingers in paint, therein directly printing the fingerprints from the manufacturing process onto the fabric. Areas of a garment that require more handling appear more densely painted. Overall the resulting pattern is quite dynamic, a combination of vague strokes and actual distinguishable fingerprints. To counterbalance the “messy” print design we choose silhouettes that are clearly legible: collared shirts, denim jeans, clean cut coats – items with clearly defined and recognizable tailoring details. Afterwards we heat the garment to fix the textile paint to the fibres making them wearable and washable." Human Touch

Lildenimjean

De-constructed, reconstructed repaired denim by Japanese company Lindenimjean who use sashiko techniques to make incredible garments. 

 

All that remains . . .

 

Left in a field and decomposed for about a 20 year period, this is a pair of Wrangler jeans is now down to its toxic skeleton of leaving behind only synthetic fibers and the metal hardware. It is facinating to see what the world cannot digest and it is plastic! Found near Sacramento by @darnvintage about 6 years ago at an estate sale and now part of the Wrangler Archives. (thanks)

Mary Shelby

 

Mary Shelby’s fascination with buttons began after seeing her mother’s button box. As her own collection grew, along with an interest in quiltmaking and design, Shelby imagined a quilt made entirely of buttons. Using 11,923 flat buttons attached to what was likely a white tablecloth with a lace trim, she adapted a Friendship Quilt pattern published in the Kansas City Star in 1938.

Cassie Arnold

Cassie Arnold's exploration of femininity through her knitted mum bra series.

Jonathon Baldock II

 

Jonathan Baldock has also makes performative costumes as part of his art. These costumes were made for The Kokoro Dance Theatre Society's LSD 'Love Sex and Death' 

Jonathan Baldock I

 Jonathan Baldock has just had an exhibition at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, I have to admit I didn't get to it on my latest trip, time had been spent gloriously exploring Sheffield (first time ever) with my great friend and we didn't get to YSP until late in the afternoon. These examples are not from this exhibition though, these are more exclusively textile applique from an exhibition in 2019 at Stephen Friedman Gallery