EMERGING DESIGNERS: ZOE GUSTAVIA ANNA WHALEN 🌿 zoe gustavia anna whalen is an artist and designer who uses ancient crafting techniques to centre the body through dress. Her research focuses on earth centered spirituality, folklore, historical undergarments and body modifications. Her first collection incorporates ceramics, basketweaving and recycled polyfill in a deconstructed nod to the dehabillier and 18th century panniers. 1. 2. Collage of designer’s own drawings, images from the esoteric book "Thought Forms" (1901) and images from a self fitting 3. Cast porcelain body plates tied together with satin ribbon 4. Stills from a self fitting 5. River wears linen horn hat, broken porcelain breast plate pieced together with secondhand jewelry, crotchless cotton bloomers and a pannier made from a single dried vine found in the catskills of Upstate New York Photographer: Emma Craft Model: River Jensen 6. Spiral bra proto; cotton muslin and recycled polyfill 7. Inspo, found image from a meme page 8. Weaving tests made using reeds after watching youtube instructional videos, 17th century pannier, and how to make a Brigids cross 9. Basketweaving experiments 10. Woven experiments with found dried branches, dried lavender and reeds from a local basketweaving supplier