Rachel Saunders

My practice explores our relationship with dress through the lens of our everyday rituals, examining our routine performances and interpreting them into conceptual ready-to-wear outcomes. This collection, End Of Day, considers our codes of dress and customs of the corporate office. The work builds upon my own personal experiences of employment in a corporate architecture setting, observing the tension between sentiments of both nervousness and mundanity. My key methods of design have included; studying the connection between garment and performance through filmed wear tests, material research and transformation, and analysis of archetypes