Melbourne Fashion Week | Mycelial Bodies

Presented as part of @MelbfashionWeek's 30th Anniversary Fashion X Underground Runway, themed Internet 1.0, we presented a modular micro collection called Mycelial Bodies, inspired by the relationship between our bodies, our skin and our respect for the bodies of our fellow human and the importance of remembering we are all connected through the original "internet 1.0" system, Mycelium.

Over this past year and beyond many of us bare witness while others of us are in depths of the most unimaginable suffering. How do we rationalise access to information - the internet - of this horror yet a continuation of its manifestation. The piece was created with all of our in-house undyed, low impact and plant dyed fabric remnants that we felt aligned with various shades of melanin, skin tones, textures, quilted together into a trench coat, corset, shirt, culottes and durag with detachable and modular red elastic and red stitching carefully placed throughout the curved seams of the design, activated by the mindful, considered, and grounding movement of @the.mind.searcher over the well-researched and illuminating wordsmithing of @shysays, who wore an aligned set of pieces of our new collection, Freedom..., released last month in New York for the Equinox.

Through cathartic and precise movement, considered wordsmithing, and circular biomimic design, we sought to invite the audience to celebrate the beauty of fashion week and with love and community, in the words of Shyaire, also feel safe to take the rose coloured glasses off.

Photography | @melbfashionweek @mothdesign @lianahardy @imzach_dean @naomirahim