The Goodbye Prague Collection
I arrived in Prague in September 2020 in the middle of the pandemic, with only one giant suitcase. Now five years later I’m leaving the city and instead of one suitcase, the objects that I own here would barely even fit into a van. Amongst them many many bags of fabrics: treasures from the fleamarket, leftover deadstock pieces, clothes from friends that they didn’t need anymore. Instead of carrying these piles of textiles with me I decided to circulate them back to the city instead: to upcycle everything into a small collection of clothes ~ simple and practical ones, full of patches, pockets, stripes and embroidery. One last love letter to the city that feels like home like no other place.
No. 1. patchwork dress
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the fabric of this dress is from
- green: and old T-shirt of mine from a second-hand store in Budapest (Cream, Blaha)
- black: a very T-shirt of mine (H&M?)
- blue: a T-shirt that Katharina gave me and probably belonged to her ex
- turquoize with 86 print: a T-shirt from Textile House (the one opposite to Veletržní Palác)
- white: a very old T-shirt of mine (H&M?)
- grey with NASA print. an old T-shirt Michal gave me.
No. 5. Hana Pants
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No. 9. kidney warmer
No. 2. blue shorts
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the fabric of these shorts is from a shirt I bought in Textile House (the one opposite to Veletržní Palác) The shirt is originally from a company called micronclean, and it could have belonged to a cleaner, a nurse or generally anyone working in sterile conditions.
No.3. patchwork bag
red&whitethis bag is composed of 3 fabrics: the white one I bought to make sails/flags/frames for Tornado Watch, the red is a leftover fabric from my Aunt’s collection that is significant because a few years ago I had made a pair of pants from this same fabric that was my favorite thing to wear while I lived in Prague and eventually became my costume for River Room. The blue lining is from Textile Mountain.
No. 7. Shirt Skirt
No.4. patchwork bag
blue&green