When Clothes Become Our Friends

When Clothes Become Our Friends is a curated journey for wearer participants. An adventure through 4 stages led by Jennifer Whitty and Karishma Singh Kelsey.

Provocation: Imagine a world where we understood how deeply life is lived in clothes. If we accept our clothes as friends, who enrich our lives, how would it change our behaviour with our clothes? How would we speak to them, & care for them? What kind of compliments would we give each other if our clothes had feelings and could hear us? We simply ask for you to join us, in your clothed body, with an open mind, heart, & spirit.

Hopes and Aspirations: These series of actions aim to help us profoundly rethink and recalibrate our relationship to fashion, at a time when the logic of the linear, industrial system is failing us all on a monumental scale - limiting our ability to feel, think and be with our clothes. We hope to build practices based on joy, and care to enable us to use new words, create new stories and forge new relationships with and through our clothing.

You can join us for all 4 of these stages or join any stage independently.

See the agenda and timetable below.

Stage 1: Clothing-Friendship Programme with the Clothing Support Workers - ALL DAY

Stage 2: Listen to the Clothes Speak - 12:00 - 1:15 PM

Stage 3: Reconnecting with old friends, a conscious style workshop - 1:15 - 2:45 PM

Stage 4: Escalator catwalk. Celebrate the magic of clothing - 3:15 - 3:30 PM

Host or Publisher New Zealand Fashion Museum