HIRAETH
GRADUATE COLLECTION 2024
LOOK 3: Fragments Set, Cropped Bodice with Printed Asymmetric Skirt.
Styling by Grace Halliday. Hair and Makeup by Ruby Duffy. Photography by Michael Parfitt. Model, Brianna Chen and Genie Kim. Photo editing by Grace Halliday.
"A homesickness for a place you can never return to, a place which maybe never was; the nostalgia, the yearning, the grief for the lost places of your past"
'Hiraeth' 2024 references the tale of Sleeping Beauty. Her tale is mirrored in the modern world, as we disassociate ourselves from reality and enter our own gardens of slumber, where we can find escape, safety and peace. This collection explores that symbiotic relationship between darkness, struggle, creativity, and survival, as these conditions can enhance and nurture our ability to think and dream deeply, creatively and vividly.
"And all around the castle there grew up a hedge of thorn, tangled with ivy, woodbine and creeping plants, so dense that from a distance it seemed like a little wood.
Higher and higher it grew, closing round the castle like a wall until all that could be seen was the top of the highest tower, and the flagstaff from which the royal standard hung limp and motionless"
- C.S. Evans, The Sleeping Beauty
