SONDER -- the feeling of realizing that every other individual you see has a life as full and real as your own, with their own thoughts, feelings, and experiences. It's the awareness that each person you encounter is the main character in their own story, just as you are in yours.

In commemoration of this fundemental realization, I chose to take teh chance on honoring strangers in everyway I could. In the same vien of thought, what better way to illustrate the connection fabric can have between people tahn through quilting. 

Quilting is an incredibly intricated, incredibly human art, traditionally done to bind scraps of tatered fabric into a new piece, extending teh fabric's lifetime along with teh stories it carries in its threads. Each of the three garments within this look utillizes a quilting technique in some way. 

OVERCOAT . . . Second-hand sourced fabric scrapes collaged with photos of starnagers and postcards

PADDED VEST . . . 1/2" fiber-fill and batting layer sandwiched between two layers of 100% cotton and topstitched around a photo of my own family - a homeage to the stories withown my own family I'll never know

FLARED TROUSER . . . Custom made paisley pattern machine emboidered on second - hand sourced ivory fabric with a whip-stitched scalloped hem