Welcome to Fraying, the second volume of Fashion Papers. Within its pages lies the work of RMIT’s Advanced Fashion and Textile Design students based in Naarm/Melbourne—each piece a fragment of process, emotion, and imagination.
Fraying traces the tensions between self and material, where ideas unravel and reform through fashion-based practices of making and of doing. This diverse selection of projects delves into themes of gender, consumption, and environment, revealing deeply personal interpretations of the world we live in through the lens of fashion.
More than a showcase, this publication offers a rare glimpse behind the curtain—into the experiments, missteps, and quiet triumphs that shape the making process.
Own a copy and uncover the full story stitched within Fraying.
Yours truly,
Steph & Aoifa
Acknowledgement of Country
We would like to acknowledge that Fraying was created on stolen land. The team and cohort would like to pay our respects to the traditional owners, the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nations.
This always was, and always will be, Aboriginal Land.
May all those who have suffered, and who continue to suffer, at the hands of colonial violence and occupation be free.
As we use this publication to share our own fashion practices with you, we also acknowledge the immense cultural significance and incredible knowledge, of textiles and clothing, that has been passed down for millennia by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.