Spotlight in Melbourne is a handicraft shop. The fabric section is known locally as a place where people can buy and pick up clothing materials. Independent freelance designer Ms Eden is very familiar with Spotlight. Eden often goes there to choose fabrics. "I prefer to choose monochrome or plaid fabrics," Eden said. She likes and takes it back to design, cut, and process it into a garment. Ms Eden has a deep sense of fashion and dress freedom: dressing for comfort, not for popular traditions. Ms Eden began to make clothes based on her belief. It's the first stop Eden makes every time she designs clothes: the fabric shop.
May 15,2021, South Melbourne
Drawing on the ground at home is freewheeling for Eden. Simple tools such as paper, pen, ruler, tape measure, and scissors can help her record her ideas in real-time. All the nearest simple means to record her thoughts were available for her to draw at any time. The solid lines on the paper are cut marks, and the line of dashes are drawn for a more precise sewing operation. Because she is a self-taught designer, simple tools facilitate her designs. Eden designs clothes simple enough to satisfy her sense of fashion.
May 17,2021, Melbourne.
After the basic drawing and pattern making, the sewing room is the most critical stop for Eden to make clothes. The tailor room is the place to confirm the garment's shape and start the formal sewing on the machine. First of all, make the corkscrew motion. Then select the suture line. Finally, there is the need to change the pressure foot to handle different clothing positions. She is not a very professional designer, and she even wears all the clothes she makes. "I enjoy the moment of making clothes and putting them on the platform, It's like giving new life to the clothes, and it's like giving new life to myself and the women," Eden said.
May 17,2021, Melbourne.
Personal designer Eden feels confident every time she wears clothes made by herself. Ms Eden wore a short suit on the top half and a skirt on the bottom to make a statement of gender equality. "My top half was a generic version of a man's suit that was cut short, keeping the shoulder pads and showing off my feminine charm," Eden said. This dress is what Eden expects that fashion can be free and unafraid of the eyes of others. For women, fashion and women's rights are relevant. Fashion can be interpreted in many ways. In her view, fashion means women can dress freely and boldly without fear of the male gaze.
May 19,2021, Melbourne.
Personal designer Eden usually publishes some clothes she makes on her social media, such as Instagram. To encourage themselves and some because of other people's eyes and did not find their direction, ignore their own girls. According to the website Social Media Today, Social media is changing the fashion industry so that any ordinary person can influence fashion in an unprecedented way. As a familiar person, Eden also hopes to convey the idea of more dress freedom to women. Fashion comes from their own confidence, which comes from not being afraid of the male gaze and dressing freely.
May 20,2021, Melbourne.
Ms Grace and Ms Eden share the same belief. Ms Grace is also a fashion wearer who supports women's freedom of dress. Ms Grace is wearing "I.Am.GIA," a disruptive brand from Australia. This brand is dominated by hollow-out design clothes，The one she wore is also hollow-out design. "I like to be a supporter of this brand because of its spirit. This brand magnifies the connection between women's freedom of dressing and fashion in its design, and every piece of clothing conveys a genuine attitude of freedom," Grace said. According to a report by Forbes, GIA is a brand that empowers women and gives them the freedom to wear clothes. Founder Pallister said in a statement that her inspiration began with women worldwide and that women should be able to wear whatever they want.
May 20,2021,Melbourne.
Fashion magazines serve as inspirations for dressing collocation in many cases. Grace told me that her outfit was inspired by life, with social media and magazines acting as a catalyst. Many fashion bloggers also turn to magazines and books with solid fashion ideas for inspiration. According to Wix's Fabuluce Fashion Direction blog, fashion magazines are a way to show trends. Magazines show pictures of designers, celebrities, and models dressed in the latest fashion. Meanwhile, many people use social media to get wardrobe advice and create new trends. The fact that more and more women can dress freely comes from social media and these fashion magazines.
May 20,2021,Melbourne.
Scattered across the bed were not only masculine suits but also many feminine dresses. This is Grace's wardrobe. She believes that women's clothes should not have frames. She's trying to break the dress code for women and start on her own. Her wardrobe is half men's suits and half feminine dresses. "I like to wear masculine suits and dresses that show off my figure. Not only that, I often blend the two styles to create new ones. It's my attitude to free dressing and her rejection of the male gaze," Grace said.
May 20,2021,Melbourne.
Fashionista Ms Grace has chosen an outfit to wear, and it's a mixture of styles. The upper body is wearing in a wide version of the men's suit, and shoulder pads are very handsome. The lower part of the dress is an elegant gradient color dress. The elegance of the woman also came out. The role of the shoes is cowboy boots, which is the combination of male and female clothing culture under the definition of primitive society. Ms Grace interprets it very well, after the fusion of the two styles in the current view is a new niche style. But her rationale and philosophy for pairing this niche style is a statement of sartorial freedom.
May 20,2021, Melbourne.
Immigration Museum is the last stop of this time to explore fashion and women's rights. Ms Grace and Ms Eden came to the location of this pictorial as fashion collocation and personal fashion designer, respectively. Grace and Eden have the same idea but use different expressions to show the connection between fashion and women's rights. In this poster, women of different ages hold signs that read "For comfort no style" to pursue women's right to dress freely. They all believe that any style worn by a woman is a fashion expression and that the male gaze will only hinder the interpretation of fashion.
May 21,2021, Melbourne
