Hannah Chamley

Hannah has recently graduated from studying a Bachelor of Fashion Design at RMIT. She has previously interned with Melbourne labels Dhini Pararajasingham and Obus. Her practice looks at design foremost as a spatial experience. The resulting outcomes lie somewhere between fashion and instillation design.

Her graduate project, WHEREING, looks at the pattern in garment making and explores its ability to map body worn space in the x-axis. It looks at experiencing a worn garment’s reach of fashion space through a personal environment. WHEREING shows the documentation of a garment's space, generated by the traditions of commercial pattern making used in the manufacturing process. These mechanical techniques are questioned and developed to show not the intended garment but the actually worn garment. The result lies somewhere between a draft, a landscape and a collection of clothes. An expansive topographical map appropriated in the form of a pattern draft shows a garments ability and immensity to posit a wearers personal space.