‘This collection comes from geo’s visit to melbourne.
This reunion has been long anticipated after living on the opposite side of the world from jude for the past 4 years. Over the years we have spoken on the phone every week and still managed to keep up a beautiful close friendship.
We knew we wanted to do something special together.
It was just really important for us to spend quality time and reconnect.
The purpose of this collection was never for money,it was never for recognition, it was just for us to connect and enjoy being with each other and feeding off the other one.
We were open to any outcome.
It could have just been one dress we made together and never shown and then thrown in the bin.
It happens to be that we worked pretty hard everyday for three weeks, getting up early, showing up for the other one, meeting in the studio around 10am, eating banh mi, crying in the car, listening to black country new road, singing songs about worm and taking the piss out of the other one for being a pain in the ass.
No one is perfect. Thank you for being a part of this imperfect collection of garments and celebration of friendship,
Everything that has been used in these garments once had a previous life and has been sourced from opshops, friends, remnants of our old pieces and whatever jude had lying around in their studio.
Thank you to maddie, who was up for the task of creating a beautiful instalation as part of our outdoor runway, made from scraps of fabric donated to us from friends and sheets found in opshops.
Thank you to our models who are our friends or lovers new and old.
We would like to acknowledge and pay respects to the traditional owners of the land we have made and exhibited these garments on; the wurundjeri and woi wurrung people of the kulin nation.
Thank you for coming to CELEBRATE us, it means a lot.
Geo and jude xx’
