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becca mccharen and emily kappes met in architecture school |
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at the university of virginia in charlottesville. |
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becca is an urban planner in lynchburg, va. |
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emily is an architect in portland, or. |
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raw materials are salvaged from |
local thrift stores, friends, relatives. |
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the garments are chopped up, sliced, shredded. |
the sleeves come off and are ripped open. |
the pants leg loses its seams and becomes a flat plane of fabric. |
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prints are overlaid on the existing material surface, |
creating a new layer of meaning, a palimpsest of lines and images. |
the new prints simultaneously add and erase. |
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new seams guide the material to take on a new form. |
existing seams, button holes, collars, cuffs, hems and gathers |
are used as guidelines. |
the flattened pant leg is now the bodice of a fitted dress. |
the opened sleeve is tightened and gathered to create |
an empire waist or bustle or a new sleeve. |