# Project Description

Memoir of the Fallen Locks

Jack Mattison

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Graduate of BA (Hons) Fashion Design and Development, Jack's creative practice explores a combination of personal experiences and feelings with a dysfunctional approach to fashion design. Their work embodies experiences with nostalgia, identity and history, articulating these themes through dominantly textural techniques within fashion and art. They communicate through looking inwards to establish strong concepts they reflect with their unrestrained, distinctive and experimental design language.

Graduate of BA (Hons) Fashion Design and Development, Jack's creative practice explores a combina...

College London College of Fashion

Course BA (Hons) Fashion Design and Development

Graduation year 2025

How can something so ever-present have its significance forgotten? After losing hair due to problems with my health, I realised as each lock of hair fell, I was losing a part of my identity. 'Memoir of the Fallen Locks' encapsulates  sentimental attachments surrounding hair, taking inspiration from Victorian attitudes, beliefs and aesthetics. With each look, a garment within has been hand felted with locks of my hair, my mothers hair and my sisters hair, acting as a preservation of our relationships with hair.

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How can something so ever-present have its significance forgotten? After losing hair due to problems with my health, I realised as each lock of hair fell, I was losing a part of my identity. 'Memoir of the Fallen Locks' encapsulates  sentimental attachments surrounding hair, t...

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