# Project Description Community Ties Benjamin Anthony Summary Final work I'm Benjamin Anthony, a recent graduate from Fashion Design Technology: Womenswear. My work often explores the relationships between queerness, childhood and masculinities. I work in a very collaborative manner that aims at bringing together different queer people from different backgrounds and giving them a space to talk about their relationship with their sexuality and identity. I'm Benjamin Anthony, a recent graduate from Fashion Design Technology: Womenswear. My work often... College London College of Fashion Course BA (Hons) Fashion Design Technology: Womenswear Graduation year 2025 Community ties is an exploration of peoples experiences with masculinity within the Queer community. Through working on this project in more of a community led and artistic manner it gave the opportunity to create a collection that brings my tongue in cheek design identity, inspired by brands and artists  like Adam Jones, Benjamin Robin and John Booth, and combining them with the lives of the people around me who have often aided in helping me bring a small idea into something beautiful. I think my own identity with Benjamin Anthony is to bring together something that, on the surface, is quite juvenile but injecting it with a darker underside. In this project specifically I wanted to explore the way Queer people were treated within the British education system but allowing it to live within the context of gay men’s sex and sexuality with the trope of Tops and Bottoms, pulling inspiration from artists like John Brooks and early David Hockney, and from 1930s underwear archetypes.  The continuation of Community Ties lives in a DIY world, that will build upon the understanding of Queer people, and I hope, will be able to help young Queer creatives forge their own identity and not feel as lonely as I did, because there’s a community out there who will have no issue helping draw on silly little underwear for you. Final work Community Ties: Look 1 Look 1 is a knitted jumper and underwear from my Too Sexy To Take Off workshop that worked with queer people asking them to respond to their relationship with queer masculinities. This garment explores the way archetype of knitted jumpers within a masculine school uniform. Community Ties: Look 2 Look 2 is a denim overcoat with a tie collar detail and star buttons. Along with a pair of black shorts and a crocheted hat. By using block colours I want to make this look like it has come straight out of a cartoon. Community Ties: Look 3 Look 3 is a blue and white striped shirt with oversized, tie shaped sleeves and placket detailing. Wearing a red denim skirt and crown baseball hat, this look explored the relationship with oversized school uniform. Research and process Community Ties: Stylings As part of this project I explored the way that as a child I would wear tights on my head to mimic having long hair, so to revisit this I styled tights on the head with past garments before taking the shapes and making them into a crocheted headpiece for looks 1 and 2 Community Ties: Research This research page was dedicated to exploring childhood garment archetypes. Share this project Community ties is an exploration of peoples experiences with masculinity within the Queer community. Through working on this project in more of a community led and artistic manner it gave the opportunity to create a collection that brings my tongue in cheek design identi... A link to this page has been added to your clipboard Browse related work Community Gender Play Sexuality Identity Sexuality Identity Community Childhood Collaboration